Admiral Richard Barnett is the senior officer who chairs the Starfleet Academy hearing into James T. Kirk's Kobayashi Maru test in the 2009 film Star Trek.
Barnett appears in Star Trek (2009), played by Tyler Perry. In 2258 he presides when Cadet Kirk is called before the Academy council, accused by Spock of cheating by reprogramming the no-win scenario.
The hearing is cut short by a distress call from Vulcan. With the main fleet away, Barnett orders the cadets to the ships in orbit, among them the new USS Enterprise.
After Nero is defeated, it is Barnett who addresses the assembled Academy, commends Kirk and gives him command of the Enterprise, relieving Admiral Pike.