Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (Philippines)
List of Secretaries of the Interior and Local Government
Notes: in concurrent capacity as Philippine President Served as Officer in Charge

Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (Philippines)

Section Title: List of Secretaries of the Interior and Local Government
Table Section Text: Notes: in concurrent capacity as Philippine President Served as Officer in Charge

#	Name	Term Began	Term Ended	President	Period

Director of the Interior	Emilio Aguinaldo	Katipunan revolutionary government

Pascual Alvarez	April 17, 1897	October 31, 1897

Minister of the Interior	Biak-na-Bato Republic

Isabelo Artacho	November 1, 1897	December 15, 1897

Leandro Ibarra	June 23, 1898	December 1898	Revolutionary Government

1	Teodoro Sandico	January 21, 1899	May 7, 1899	First Republic

2	Severino de las Alas	May 7, 1899	November 13, 1899

Secretary of the Interior

A new Department of the Interior was created by the Philippine Commission in September 1901.	Insular Government (American occupation)

Dean Worcester	1901	1913	N/A

Winfred T. Denison	1913	1916

Rafael Palma	1917	1920

Teodoro M. Kalaw	1920	1922

Jose P. Laurel	1922	1923

Felipe Agoncillo	1923	1925

Honorio Ventura	1925	1933

Teofilo Sison	1933	1935

3	Elpidio Quirino	1935	1938	Manuel L. Quezon	Commonwealth

4	Rafael Alunan	1938	1940

Commissioner of the Interior	N/A	Japanese occupation

Benigno Aquino, Sr.	1942	1942

Minister of the Interior

Jose P. Laurel	December 4, 1942	October 14, 1943

Secretary of the Interior	Sergio Osmeña	Commonwealth (restored)

5	Tomas Confesor	1945	1945

Secretary of National Defense and the Interior

6	Alfredo Montelibano, Sr.	July 11, 1945	May 27, 1946

Secretaries of the Interior	Manuel Roxas	Third Republic

7	Jose Zulueta	1946	1948

8	Sotero J. Baluyut	1948	1950	Elpidio Quirino

The Department of the Interior was abolished in 1950.

In 1956, the office of the Presidential Assistants on Community Development (PACD) was created, having roles resembling that of the Department of the Interior, except supervision over the police force.

Secretary of Local Government and Community Development	Ferdinand Marcos

9	Jose Roño	January 1, 1973	1978

Minister of Local Government and Community Development	Fourth Republic

*	Jose Roño	1978	1982

Ministers of Local Government

*	Jose Roño	1982	February 25, 1986

10	Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.	February 26, 1986	March 25, 1986	Corazon Aquino	Fifth Republic

Secretaries of Local Government

Aquilino Pimentel Jr.	March 25, 1986	December 7, 1986

11	Jaime Ferrer	December 8, 1986	August 2, 1987

Lito Monico Lorenzana (acting)	August 3, 1987	November 8, 1987

12	Luis T. Santos	November 9, 1987	December 10, 1991

Secretaries of Interior and Local Government

13	Cesar Sarino	December 11, 1991	June 30, 1992

14	Rafael Alunan III	June 30, 1992	April 16, 1996	Fidel V. Ramos

15	Robert Z. Barbers	April 16, 1996	February 4, 1998

16	Epimaco Velasco	February 4, 1998	May 30, 1998

Nelson Collantes (OIC)	June 1, 1998	June 30, 1998

17	Joseph Estrada	June 30, 1998	April 12, 1999	Joseph Estrada

18	Ronaldo Puno	April 12, 1999	January 10, 2000

19	Alfredo Lim	January 10, 2000	January 20, 2001

Anselmo Avelino, Jr. (OIC)	January 20, 2001	January 28, 2001	Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

20	Jose Lina, Jr.	January 29, 2001	July 11, 2004

21	Angelo Reyes	July 12, 2004	February 16, 2006

22	Ronaldo Puno	April 4, 2006	June 30, 2010

Benigno Aquino III (OIC)	June 30, 2010	July 9, 2010	Benigno Aquino III

23	Jesse Robredo	July 9, 2010	August 18, 2012

Paquito Ochoa, Jr. (OIC)	August 19, 2012	September 19, 2012

24	Mar Roxas	September 20, 2012	September 11, 2015

25	Mel Senen Sarmiento	September 14, 2015	June 30, 2016

26	Ismael Sueno	June 30, 2016	April 4, 2017	Rodrigo Duterte

Catalino Cuy (OIC)	April 5, 2017	January 4, 2018

27	Eduardo Año	January 5, 2018	November 6, 2018

November 6, 2018	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

The current Secretary is Eduardo Año, who assumed office on November 6, 2018 after serving as Officer in Charge since January 5, 2018.

final_sentence: The current Secretary is Eduardo Año, who assumed office on November 6, 2018 after serving as Officer in Charge since January 5, 2018.