Dr. Jeremiah F. Creedon
Director of Langley Research Center, Aug. 1996–June 2002
Dr. Jeremiah F. Creedon was the seventh director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, serving from August 5, 1996 until June 15, 2002. He retired from NASA in 2003.
Prior to being named Center Director, Creedon was Director of the Airframe Systems Program Office. Until February 1996 he was Director of the Aeronautics Program Group, a position he had held since February 1994.
Creedon began his career at NASA Langley in June 1963 as a research engineer in the Navigation and Guidance Research Branch, Instrument Research Division.
After 1970, he held a variety of management positions in both aeronautics and space research. Creedon was named Head of the Control and Information Systems Section in 1970, Assistant Head of the Avionics Technology Research Branch in 1979, Chief of the Flight Control Systems Division in 1982, and Head of the Flight Systems Directorate in 1985.
A Rhode Island native, Creedon graduated from the University of Rhode Island with bachelor and master of science degrees and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1961, 1963 and 1970, respectively. He was a Sloan Fellow in 1982–83 at Stanford University and received a master of management science degree.
Creedon was the author of more than 30 technical articles and is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He received the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive in the Senior Executive Service in 1989 for his outstanding contributions to the management of NASA programs. In 1990, Creedon received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. In 1995, he received the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive in Senior Executive Service.
Creedon passed away in October 2022 at the age of 82.