Jenny Shepherd
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NCIS Director Jennifer "Jenny" Shepherd is a fictional character on the TV show NCIS played by Lauren Holly. She replaced NCIS's former director, Thomas Morrow, at the start of the program's third season after Morrow took a Deputy Director's position with the Department of Homeland Security. Her appointment occurred in the wake of the assassination of NCIS agent Caitlin Todd by a rogue Mossad agent.
Previously, she had worked with Special Agent Jethro Gibbs in Paris, France on an undercover assignment. It appears that they had a personal relationship outside of the scope of the mission. When she is promoted to Director, Gibbs does not agree with this move because he believes that she is too good of a field agent to be working in an office. She and Gibbs frequently butt heads in investigations, and it appears that even if she gave Gibbs a direct order and he did not comply, she would not punish him. In addition to Gibbs, she has also previously worked with Officer Ziva David in Israel on counterterrorism operations, which is why she has brought Ziva with her to NCIS to work with Gibbs' team in order to investigate Todd's murder.
She once said that Gibbs views her as a wife. When a suspect said that that is good, she then stated that Gibbs has been married three times (in a later episode, she observed that Gibbs appeared to be partial to redheads, suggesting his wives all had red hair; Shepherd is also a redhead). She is very caring of Gibbs, to the point that when he is in a coma at the end of the third season, she leaves a dinner with the President to come to the hospital to see him. In helping him to regain his memories of the previous 15 years, she reminds him that they were once lovers.
Jenny works with much of NCIS as a professional director. However, with Gibbs' team, she works much more personally, such as seeking advice from Ducky or confiding in Tony. She is also shown as being a confidant of Ziva David's. In recent episodes her relationship with Tony has cooled off somewhat, with Tony insisting on using formal terms when speaking with her.
Her assistant's name is Cynthia Sumner, played by Stephanie Mello.
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