List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries
Current departments
Numerical order represents the seniority of the Secretaries in the United States presidential line of succession. denotes the first female secretary of that particular department

List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries

Section Title: Current departments
Table Section Text: Numerical order represents the seniority of the Secretaries in the United States presidential line of succession. denotes the first female secretary of that particular department

#	Secretary	Position	Year appointed	Party	Administration	Ref.

1	Madeleine Albright*	Secretary of State	1997	Democratic	Bill Clinton

1	Condoleezza Rice	Secretary of State	2005	Republican	George W. Bush

1	Hillary Clinton	Secretary of State	2009	Democratic	Barack Obama

2	—	Secretary of the Treasury	—	—	—	—

3	—	Secretary of Defense	—	—	—	—

4	Janet Reno*	Attorney General	1993	Democratic	Bill Clinton

4	Loretta Lynch	Attorney General	2015	Democratic	Barack Obama

5	Gale Norton*	Secretary of the Interior	2001	Republican	George W. Bush

5	Sally Jewell	Secretary of the Interior	2013	Democratic	Barack Obama

6	Ann Veneman*	Secretary of Agriculture	2001	Republican	George W. Bush

7	Juanita M. Kreps*	Secretary of Commerce	1977	Democratic	Jimmy Carter

7	Barbara Franklin	Secretary of Commerce	1992	Republican	George H. W. Bush

7	Penny Pritzker	Secretary of Commerce	2013	Democratic	Barack Obama

8	Frances Perkins*	Secretary of Labor	1933	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt

8	Ann Dore McLaughlin	Secretary of Labor	1987	Republican	Ronald Reagan

8	Elizabeth Dole	Secretary of Labor	1989	Republican	George H. W. Bush

8	Lynn Morley Martin	Secretary of Labor	1991	Republican	George H. W. Bush

8	Alexis Herman	Secretary of Labor	1997	Democratic	Bill Clinton

8	Elaine Chao	Secretary of Labor	2001	Republican	George W. Bush

8	Hilda Solis	Secretary of Labor	2009	Democratic	Barack Obama

9	Patricia Roberts Harris*	Secretary of Health and Human Services	1979	Democratic	Jimmy Carter

9	Margaret Heckler	Secretary of Health and Human Services	1983	Republican	Ronald Reagan

9	Donna Shalala	Secretary of Health and Human Services	1993	Democratic	Bill Clinton

9	Kathleen Sebelius	Secretary of Health and Human Services	2009	Democratic	Barack Obama

9	Sylvia Mathews Burwell	Secretary of Health and Human Services	2014	Democratic	Barack Obama

10	Carla Anderson Hills*	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	1975	Republican	Gerald Ford

10	Patricia Roberts Harris	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	1977	Democratic	Jimmy Carter

11	Elizabeth Dole*	Secretary of Transportation	1983	Republican	Ronald Reagan

11	Mary Peters	Secretary of Transportation	2006	Republican	George W. Bush

11	Elaine Chao	Secretary of Transportation	2017	Republican	Donald Trump

12	Hazel R. O'Leary*	Secretary of Energy	1993	Democratic	Bill Clinton

13	Shirley Hufstedler*	Secretary of Education	1979	Democratic	Jimmy Carter

13	Margaret Spellings	Secretary of Education	2005	Republican	George W. Bush

13	Betsy DeVos	Secretary of Education	2017	Republican	Donald Trump

14	—	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	—	—	—	—

15	Janet Napolitano*	Secretary of Homeland Security	2009	Democratic	Barack Obama

15	Kirstjen Nielsen	Secretary of Homeland Security	2017	Republican	Donald Trump

Sentence(s)

Alexis Herman was the fifth woman to serve in the Secretary of Labor position.

final_sentence: Alexis Herman was the fifth woman to serve in the Secretary of Labor position.