With the outbreak of the Korean War, Inman joined the United States Navy (USN), enrolled in the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island, and soon was touring extensively to address legal matters. There are few people who match the span and significance of Admiral Inman's career in national security. Johnson Centennial Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, and he is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Service. Over the past thirty years, Inman has served on numerous boards of directors in the public and private sectors, and he has provided advice to American presidents, Congress, and the Department of State. In the late 1980s, Inman served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. After resigning in 1982 from the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as deputy director, Inman was named chairman and CEO of Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, and then as chairman and CEO of Westmark Systems. Inman joined Caltech's Board relatively early in his post-government career. Reflecting on a career that has provided him a central role in the decision-making process at the highest levels of government, private business, and the public sector, Inman stresses that Caltech has always occupied a unique place for him. Beyond JPL, Inman has provided invaluable counsel at Caltech on a range of strategic matters, and at age 91 he remains as engaged and committed as ever.
proved vital to JPL's success in the immediate and long term.
Inman's appointment at Caltech was well-timed: with the end of the Cold War, JPL found itself in a new and challenging political and budgetary environment, and Inman's unmatched knowledge of Washington D.C. He joined the Board in 1989 to guide Caltech's relationship, on behalf of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), with NASA and Congress. Among Admiral Bobby Ray Inman's longest running and proudest roles is his service to Caltech's Board of Trustees.
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