Did Sherrill Violate Naval Academy’s Honor Code? Classmates Speak out About Notorious Cheating Scandal
29th September 2025
The white hats of the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy sailed high in the clear skies above Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis in May of 1994, after President Bill Clinton gave the commencement address and the Navy’s Blue Angels roared overhead.
Mikie Sherrill, now a New Jersey Democratic congresswoman running for governor, saw none of it.
She was caught up in a months-long investigation of the worst cheating scandal in the academy’s history, leading to the expulsion of 24 midshipmen. Sherrill says she did not cheat but was penalized because she would not turn in her classmates involved in the infamous scandal.
Which is just as much a violation of the Honor Code as actually cheating.
While allowed to graduate, Sherrill was not permitted to walk in the procession with the rest of her classmates in that joyous ceremony. She was among 64 who received lesser punishment.