[edit] Jenny Shepard
Portrayed door Lauren Holly, she first appeared in the episode "Kill Ari (Part 1)". She replaced former NCIS director Thomas Morrow, at the start of the third season after Morrow took a Deputy Director's position with the Department of Homeland Security. She was Gibbs' former partner and also his former lover. She was killed in the episode "Judgment dag (Part 1)". At the time of her death she was already dying from brain cancer. In several episodes before her death in the episode "Judgment dag (Part 1)", Ducky is shown to be ordering a test on a blood sample to Abby, telling her that they are from a John Doe. However, when Abby talks to Jimmy Palmer, he says that they have no John Does. Gibbs deduces, correctly, that the only person Ducky would act this way for would be the director at the end of the episode "Stakeout". In 'Dog Tags' Gibbs vragen Jenny about her illness and she lies to him, saying she's fine. Mike Franks also discovers her illness door going through her portemonnee and finding her medication. In the episode "Judgment dag (Part 1)", Franks and Jenny are talking in an abandoned diner in the CA desert and she indicates that she is dying and reveals that she regrets her decision to leave Gibbs in Paris and that she's still in love with him. She is then mysteriously gunned down, while Franks lives. She was revealed to have been targeted because of an operation she botched ten years prior. She and Gibbs had been ordered to assassinate Russian lovers who were crime lords. Gibbs shot the brother but Jenny faced the woman down and let her live. Franks shoots the woman in Jenny's house before she can kill Gibbs then the two of them burn it down. Jenny's death is officially reported as "Death in home pagina fire." She was replaced door former Assistant Director Leon Vance.