United States Secretary of Transportation
List of Secretaries of Transportation
Parties Democratic (7) Republican (11)

United States Secretary of Transportation

Section Title: List of Secretaries of Transportation
Table Section Text: Parties Democratic (7) Republican (11)

No.	Image	Name	State of Residence	Took office	Left office	President serving under

1	Black-and-white photo of a balding man in a suit and striped tie	Alan S. Boyd	Florida	January 16, 1967	January 20, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson

2	Black-and-white photo of man in a suit and black tie	John A. Volpe	Massachusetts	January 22, 1969	February 2, 1973	Richard M. Nixon

3	Color photo of a bald man wearing glasses and a suit with a striped tie	Claude S. Brinegar	California	February 2, 1973	February 1, 1975

Gerald R. Ford

4	Black-and-white photo of an African American man in a suit wearing glasses looking to his left	William T. Coleman, Jr.	Pennsylvania	March 7, 1975	January 20, 1977

5	Black-and-white photo of a man in a suit smiling	Brock Adams	Washington	January 23, 1977	July 20, 1979	Jimmy Carter

6	Black-and-white photo of a man with a wide smile and short curly hair wearing a light-colored suit	Neil E. Goldschmidt	Oregon	August 15, 1979	January 20, 1981

7	Black-and-white photo of a man wearing a suit sitting at a desk with his hands folded on it and the DOT logo and US flag behind him	Drew Lewis	Pennsylvania	January 23, 1981	February 1, 1983	Ronald Reagan

8	Smiling woman wearing earrings and a red shirt	Elizabeth H. Dole	Kansas	February 7, 1983	September 30, 1987

9	Black-and-white photo of a man in a suit and combed-over hair with the US flag behind him	James H. Burnley IV	North Carolina	December 3, 1987	January 20, 1989

10	Smiling man with thinning hair wearing a suit and a blue tie with the US flag behind him	Samuel K. Skinner	Illinois	February 6, 1989	December 13, 1991	George H. W. Bush

11	Smiling man wearing a suit and a red tie	Andrew H. Card	Massachusetts	February 24, 1992	January 20, 1993

12	Hispanic man with large glasses and black hair with the US flag behind him	Federico Peña	Colorado	January 21, 1993	February 14, 1997	Bill Clinton

13	African American man with short hair and a short mustache	Rodney E. Slater	Arkansas	February 14, 1997	January 20, 2001

14	Older Japanese American man with glasses wearing a suit with a red tie with the US flag behind him	Norman Y. Mineta	California	January 25, 2001	August 7, 2006	George W. Bush

15	Woman with long brown hair with the US flag behind hier	Mary E. Peters	Arizona	October 17, 2006	January 20, 2009

16	-	Ray H. LaHood	Illinois	January 23, 2009	July 2, 2013	Barack Obama

17	Mayor Anthony Foxx, Charlotte NC	Anthony R. Foxx	North Carolina	July 2, 2013	January 20, 2017

–	-	Michael Huerta Acting	California	January 20, 2017	January 31, 2017	Donald Trump

18	-	Elaine Chao	Kentucky	January 31, 2017	present

Sentence(s)

Ray LaHood was the sixteenth United States Secretary of Transportation who took office on January 23, 2009, and served under Barack Obama.

final_sentence: Ray LaHood was the sixteenth United States Secretary of Transportation who took office on January 23, 2009, and served under Barack Obama.