# List of people who have held multiple United States Cabinet-level positions

The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the President of the United States, has had numerous permanent members serve as heads of multiple different federal executive departments, along with the Vice President or other cabinet-level positions, which can differ under each president. As the years progressed, some departments lost their original status in the president's cabinet, while other offices were established or reorganized as such. Unlike in many parliamentary cabinets, it is generally less common in the United States for officeholders to obtain multiple positions over the years.
Edmund Randolph became the first person to have served in two different presidential cabinet posts when he was appointed Secretary of State by President George Washington in 1794 after previously serving as Attorney General during Washington's first term in office. Patricia Roberts Harris was the first woman and the first person of color to serve multiple posts in a president's cabinet when President Jimmy Carter appointed her Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1979, having earlier served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development through the first half of Carter's administration.
Elliot Richardson held the most different positions within the presidential cabinet with four, having served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Secretary of Defense; and Attorney General, all three under President Richard Nixon, as well as Secretary of Commerce for Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford. That record was equaled by George Shultz, who served successively within the Nixon administration—first as Secretary of Labor, then in a cabinet-rank position as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and finally as Secretary of the Treasury—before being appointed Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan.

## List of multiple cabinet-level officeholders

The following list includes people who have led two or more different executive departments or other cabinet-level offices, which can vary under each president. The table below is organized by date of second appointment or election to such a position. Officeholders whose terms begin the same day are ranked alphabetically by last name.
| Name | Office | Took office | Left office |
| Edmund Randolph | Attorney General | September 26, 1789 | January 26, 1794 |
| Edmund Randolph | Secretary of State | January 2, 1794 | August 20, 1795 |
| Timothy Pickering | Secretary of War | January 2, 1795 | December 10, 1795 |
| Timothy Pickering | Secretary of State | December 10, 1795 | May 12, 1800 |
| Samuel Dexter | Secretary of War | June 1, 1800 | January 31, 1801 |
| Samuel Dexter | Secretary of the Treasury | January 1, 1801 | May 13, 1801 |
| Robert Smith | Secretary of the Navy | July 27, 1801 | March 4, 1809 |
| Robert Smith | Secretary of State | March 6, 1809 | April 1, 1811 |
| James Monroe | Secretary of State | April 6, 1811 | March 4, 1817 |
| James Monroe | Secretary of War | September 27, 1814 | March 2, 1815 |
| William H. Crawford | Secretary of War | August 1, 1815 | October 22, 1816 |
| William H. Crawford | Secretary of the Treasury | October 22, 1816 | March 6, 1825 |
| Richard Rush | Attorney General | February 10, 1814 | November 12, 1817 |
| Richard Rush | Secretary of the Treasury | March 7, 1825 | March 5, 1829 |
| Louis McLane | Secretary of the Treasury | August 8, 1831 | May 29, 1833 |
| Louis McLane | Secretary of State | May 29, 1833 | June 30, 1834 |
| Roger B. Taney | Attorney General | July 20, 1831 | November 14, 1833 |
| Roger B. Taney | Secretary of the Treasury | September 23, 1833 | June 25, 1834 |
| Levi Woodbury | Secretary of the Navy | May 23, 1831 | June 30, 1834 |
| Levi Woodbury | Secretary of the Treasury | July 1, 1834 | March 4, 1841 |
| Abel P. Upshur | Secretary of the Navy | October 11, 1841 | July 23, 1843 |
| Abel P. Upshur | Secretary of State | July 24, 1843 | February 28, 1844 |
| John C. Calhoun | Secretary of War | December 8, 1817 | March 4, 1825 |
| John C. Calhoun | Secretary of State | April 1, 1844 | March 10, 1845 |
| John Y. Mason | Secretary of the Navy | March 26, 1844 | March 4, 1845 |
| John Y. Mason | Attorney General | March 5, 1845 | October 16, 1846 |
| John Y. Mason | Secretary of the Navy | September 10, 1846 | March 4, 1849 |
| Thomas Ewing | Secretary of the Treasury | March 4, 1841 | September 11, 1841 |
| Thomas Ewing | Secretary of the Interior | March 8, 1849 | July 22, 1850 |
| William L. Marcy | Secretary of War | March 6, 1845 | March 4, 1849 |
| William L. Marcy | Secretary of State | March 7, 1853 | March 6, 1857 |
| Lewis Cass | Secretary of War | August 1, 1831 | October 4, 1836 |
| Lewis Cass | Secretary of State | March 6, 1857 | December 14, 1860 |
| Isaac Toucey | Attorney General | June 21, 1848 | March 3, 1849 |
| Isaac Toucey | Secretary of the Navy | March 7, 1857 | March 4, 1861 |
| Jeremiah S. Black | Attorney General | March 6, 1857 | December 16, 1860 |
| Jeremiah S. Black | Secretary of State | December 17, 1860 | March 5, 1861 |
| Joseph Holt | Postmaster General | March 9, 1859 | December 31, 1860 |
| Joseph Holt | Secretary of War | January 18, 1861 | March 5, 1861 |
| Edwin Stanton | Attorney General | December 20, 1860 | March 4, 1861 |
| Edwin Stanton | Secretary of War | January 20, 1862 | May 28, 1868 |
| Alphonso Taft | Secretary of War | March 8, 1876 | May 22, 1876 |
| Alphonso Taft | Attorney General | May 22, 1876 | March 4, 1877 |
| William M. Evarts | Attorney General | July 17, 1868 | March 4, 1869 |
| William M. Evarts | Secretary of State | March 12, 1877 | March 7, 1881 |
| Walter Q. Gresham | Postmaster General | April 9, 1883 | September 4, 1884 |
| Walter Q. Gresham | Secretary of the Treasury | September 5, 1884 | October 28, 1884 |
| Walter Q. Gresham | Secretary of State | March 7, 1893 | May 28, 1895 |
| William Freeman Vilas | Postmaster General | March 6, 1885 | January 6, 1888 |
| William Freeman Vilas | Secretary of the Interior | January 16, 1888 | March 6, 1889 |
| Richard Olney | Attorney General | March 6, 1893 | June 10, 1895 |
| Richard Olney | Secretary of State | June 10, 1895 | March 5, 1897 |
| John Sherman | Secretary of the Treasury | March 10, 1877 | March 3, 1881 |
| John Sherman | Secretary of State | March 6, 1897 | April 27, 1898 |
| William Henry Moody | Secretary of the Navy | May 1, 1902 | June 30, 1904 |
| William Henry Moody | Attorney General | July 1, 1904 | December 12, 1906 |
| George B. Cortelyou | Secretary of Commerce and Labor | February 18, 1903 | June 30, 1904 |
| George B. Cortelyou | Postmaster General | March 6, 1905 | January 14, 1907 |
| George B. Cortelyou | Secretary of the Treasury | March 4, 1907 | March 7, 1909 |
| Elihu Root | Secretary of War | August 1, 1899 | January 31, 1904 |
| Elihu Root | Secretary of State | July 19, 1905 | January 27, 1909 |
| Charles Joseph Bonaparte | Secretary of the Navy | July 1, 1905 | December 16, 1906 |
| Charles Joseph Bonaparte | Attorney General | December 17, 1906 | March 4, 1909 |
| Victor H. Metcalf | Secretary of Commerce and Labor | July 1, 1904 | December 16, 1906 |
| Victor H. Metcalf | Secretary of the Navy | December 17, 1906 | November 30, 1908 |
| Philander C. Knox | Attorney General | April 5, 1901 | June 30, 1904 |
| Philander C. Knox | Secretary of State | March 6, 1909 | March 5, 1913 |
| George von Lengerke Meyer | Postmaster General | January 15, 1907 | March 4, 1909 |
| George von Lengerke Meyer | Secretary of the Navy | March 6, 1909 | March 4, 1913 |
| David F. Houston | Secretary of Agriculture | March 6, 1913 | February 2, 1920 |
| David F. Houston | Secretary of the Treasury | February 2, 1920 | March 3, 1921 |
| Hubert Work | Postmaster General | March 4, 1922 | March 4, 1923 |
| Hubert Work | Secretary of the Interior | March 4, 1923 | July 24, 1928 |
| Henry L. Stimson | Secretary of War | May 22, 1911 | May 4, 1913 |
| Henry L. Stimson | Secretary of State | March 28, 1929 | March 4, 1933 |
| Henry L. Stimson | Secretary of War | July 10, 1940 | September 21, 1945 |
| Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Agriculture | March 4, 1933 | September 4, 1940 |
| Henry A. Wallace | Vice President | January 20, 1941 | January 20, 1945 |
| Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Commerce | March 2, 1945 | September 20, 1946 |
| James Forrestal | Secretary of the Navy | May 19, 1944 | September 17, 1947 |
| James Forrestal | Secretary of Defense | September 17, 1947 | March 28, 1949 |
| Kenneth Claiborne Royall | Secretary of War | July 19, 1947 | September 18, 1947 |
| Kenneth Claiborne Royall | Secretary of the Army | September 18, 1947 | April 27, 1949 |
| George Marshall | Secretary of State | January 21, 1947 | January 20, 1949 |
| George Marshall | Secretary of Defense | September 21, 1950 | September 12, 1951 |
| Arthur Goldberg | Secretary of Labor | January 21, 1961 | September 20, 1962 |
| Arthur Goldberg | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | July 28, 1965 | June 24, 1968 |
| Maurice Stans | Director of the Bureau of the Budget | March 18, 1958 | January 21, 1961 |
| Maurice Stans | Secretary of Commerce | January 21, 1969 | February 15, 1972 |
| William P. Rogers | Attorney General | October 23, 1957 | January 20, 1961 |
| William P. Rogers | Secretary of State | January 22, 1969 | September 3, 1973 |
| Robert Finch | Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | January 21, 1969 | June 23, 1970 |
| Robert Finch | Counselor to the President | June 23, 1970 | December 15, 1972 |
| George Shultz | Secretary of Labor | January 22, 1969 | July 1, 1970 |
| George Shultz | Director of the Management and Budget | July 1, 1970 | June 11, 1972 |
| George Shultz | Secretary of the Treasury | June 12, 1972 | May 8, 1974 |
| George Shultz | Secretary of State | July 16, 1982 | January 20, 1989 |
| Elliot Richardson | Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | June 24, 1970 | January 29, 1973 |
| Elliot Richardson | Secretary of Defense | January 30, 1973 | May 24, 1973 |
| Elliot Richardson | Attorney General | May 25, 1973 | October 20, 1973 |
| Elliot Richardson | Secretary of Commerce | February 2, 1976 | January 20, 1977 |
| Caspar Weinberger | Director of the Management and Budget | June 12, 1972 | February 1, 1973 |
| Caspar Weinberger | Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | February 12, 1973 | August 8, 1975 |
| Caspar Weinberger | Secretary of Defense | January 21, 1981 | November 23, 1987 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Counselor to the President | December 11, 1970 | October 15, 1971 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | White House Chief of Staff | September 21, 1974 | November 20, 1975 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Secretary of Defense | November 20, 1975 | January 20, 1977 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Secretary of Defense | January 20, 2001 | December 18, 2006 |
| James Thomas Lynn | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | February 2, 1973 | February 5, 1975 |
| James Thomas Lynn | Director of the Management and Budget | February 10, 1975 | January 20, 1977 |
| Frederick B. Dent | Secretary of Commerce | February 2, 1973 | March 26, 1975 |
| Frederick B. Dent | United States Trade Representative | March 26, 1975 | January 20, 1977 |
| Rogers Morton | Secretary of the Interior | January 29, 1971 | April 30, 1975 |
| Rogers Morton | Secretary of Commerce | May 1, 1975 | February 2, 1976 |
| Rogers Morton | Counselor to the President | February 2, 1976 | April 1, 1976 |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Counselor to the President | November 5, 1969 | December 31, 1970 |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | June 30, 1975 | February 2, 1976 |
| James R. Schlesinger | Secretary of Defense | July 2, 1973 | November 19, 1975 |
| James R. Schlesinger | Secretary of Energy | August 9, 1977 | August 23, 1979 |
| Patricia Roberts Harris | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | January 23, 1977 | September 10, 1979 |
| Patricia Roberts Harris | Secretary of Health and Human Services | August 3, 1979 | January 20, 1981 |
| George H. W. Bush | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | March 1, 1971 | January 18, 1973 |
| George H. W. Bush | Vice President | January 20, 1981 | January 20, 1989 |
| Donald P. Hodel | Secretary of Energy | November 5, 1982 | February 7, 1985 |
| Donald P. Hodel | Secretary of the Interior | February 8, 1985 | January 20, 1989 |
| Edwin Meese | Counselor to the President | January 20, 1981 | February 25, 1985 |
| Edwin Meese | Attorney General | February 25, 1985 | August 12, 1988 |
| Bill Brock | United States Trade Representative | January 23, 1981 | April 29, 1985 |
| Bill Brock | Secretary of Labor | April 29, 1985 | October 31, 1987 |
| James Baker | Secretary of the Treasury | February 4, 1985 | August 17, 1988 |
| James Baker | Secretary of State | January 25, 1989 | August 23, 1992 |
| Elizabeth Dole | Secretary of Transportation | February 7, 1983 | September 30, 1987 |
| Elizabeth Dole | Secretary of Labor | January 25, 1989 | November 23, 1990 |
| Carla Anderson Hills | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | March 10, 1975 | January 20, 1977 |
| Carla Anderson Hills | United States Trade Representative | February 6, 1989 | January 20, 1993 |
| Clayton Yeutter | United States Trade Representative | July 1, 1985 | January 20, 1989 |
| Clayton Yeutter | Secretary of Agriculture | February 16, 1989 | March 1, 1991 |
| Clayton Yeutter | Counselor to the President | February 1, 1992 | January 20, 1993 |
| Dick Cheney | White House Chief of Staff | November 21, 1975 | January 20, 1977 |
| Dick Cheney | Secretary of Defense | March 21, 1989 | January 20, 1993 |
| Dick Cheney | Vice President | January 20, 2001 | January 20, 2009 |
| Leon Panetta | Director of the Management and Budget | January 21, 1993 | July 17, 1994 |
| Leon Panetta | White House Chief of Staff | July 17, 1994 | January 20, 1997 |
| Leon Panetta | Secretary of Defense | July 1, 2011 | February 26, 2013 |
| Mickey Kantor | United States Trade Representative | January 21, 1993 | April 12, 1996 |
| Mickey Kantor | Secretary of Commerce | April 12, 1996 | January 21, 1997 |
| Erskine Bowles | Administrator of the Small Business Administration | May 7, 1993 | October 3, 1994 |
| Erskine Bowles | White House Chief of Staff | January 20, 1997 | October 20, 1998 |
| Madeleine Albright | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | January 27, 1993 | January 21, 1997 |
| Madeleine Albright | Secretary of State | January 23, 1997 | January 20, 2001 |
| Federico Peña | Secretary of Transportation | January 21, 1993 | February 14, 1997 |
| Federico Peña | Secretary of Energy | March 12, 1997 | June 30, 1998 |
| Bill Richardson | United States Ambassador to the United Nations | February 18, 1997 | August 18, 1998 |
| Bill Richardson | Secretary of Energy | August 18, 1998 | January 20, 2001 |
| Andrew Card | Secretary of Transportation | February 24, 1992 | January 20, 1993 |
| Andrew Card | White House Chief of Staff | January 20, 2001 | April 14, 2006 |
| Norman Mineta | Secretary of Commerce | July 20, 2000 | January 20, 2001 |
| Norman Mineta | Secretary of Transportation | January 25, 2001 | July 7, 2006 |
| Mike Leavitt | Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | November 6, 2003 | January 26, 2005 |
| Mike Leavitt | Secretary of Health and Human Services | January 26, 2005 | January 20, 2009 |
| Joshua Bolten | Director of the Management and Budget | June 6, 2003 | April 14, 2006 |
| Joshua Bolten | White House Chief of Staff | April 14, 2006 | January 20, 2009 |
| Rob Portman | United States Trade Representative | May 17, 2005 | May 29, 2006 |
| Rob Portman | Director of the Management and Budget | May 29, 2006 | June 19, 2007 |
| William M. Daley | Secretary of Commerce | January 30, 1997 | July 19, 2000 |
| William M. Daley | White House Chief of Staff | January 13, 2011 | January 27, 2012 |
| Jack Lew | Director of the Management and Budget | May 21, 1998 | January 19, 2001 |
| Jack Lew | White House Chief of Staff | January 27, 2012 | January 20, 2013 |
| Jack Lew | Secretary of the Treasury | February 28, 2013 | January 20, 2017 |
| Sylvia Mathews Burwell | Director of the Management and Budget | April 24, 2013 | June 9, 2014 |
| Sylvia Mathews Burwell | Secretary of Health and Human Services | June 9, 2014 | January 20, 2017 |
| Shaun Donovan | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | January 26, 2009 | July 28, 2014 |
| Shaun Donovan | Director of the Management and Budget | August 5, 2014 | January 20, 2017 |
| Elaine Chao | Secretary of Labor | January 29, 2001 | January 20, 2009 |
| Elaine Chao | Secretary of Transportation | January 31, 2017 | January 11, 2021 |
| John F. Kelly | Secretary of Homeland Security | January 20, 2017 | July 31, 2017 |
| John F. Kelly | White House Chief of Staff | July 31, 2017 | January 2, 2019 |
| Mike Pompeo | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | January 23, 2017 | April 26, 2018 |
| Mike Pompeo | Secretary of State | April 26, 2018 | January 20, 2021 |
| Janet Yellen | Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | February 18, 1997 | August 3, 1999 |
| Janet Yellen | Secretary of the Treasury | January 26, 2021 | January 20, 2025 |
| Denis McDonough | White House Chief of Staff | January 20, 2013 | January 20, 2017 |
| Denis McDonough | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | February 9, 2021 | January 20, 2025 |
| John Ratcliffe | Director of National Intelligence | May 26, 2020 | January 20, 2021 |
| John Ratcliffe | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | January 23, 2025 | Incumbent |

### Former permanent cabinet members

* The Secretary of War (1789–1947) became defunct when the Department of War was split between the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force by the National Security Act of 1947, and both were absorbed into the Department of Defense in 1949.
* The Postmaster General (1829–1971) ceased to be a member of the cabinet when the Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service (USPS) by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, a special agency independent of the executive branch.
* The Secretaries of the Army (1947–1949), Navy (1798–1949), and Air Force (1947–1949) ceased to be members of the cabinet when their particular departments was absorbed into the Department of Defense in 1949.

### Cabinet-level positions

The following positions have intermittently been raised to cabinet rank:
* Vice President (1921–1923, 1929–present)
* Ambassador to the United Nations (1953–1989, 1993–2001, 2009–2018, 2021–present)
* Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1953–1961, 1969–present)
* White House Chief of Staff (1953–1961, 1974–1977, 1993–present)
* Counselor to the President (1969–1977, 1981–1985, 1992–1993)
* White House Counsel (1974–1977)
* United States Trade Representative (1975–present)
* Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1977–1981, 1993–2001, 2009–2017, 2021–2025)
* National Security Advisor (1977–1981)
* Director of Central Intelligence (1981–1989, 1995–2001)
* Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (1993–present)
* Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (1993–2009)
* Administrator of the Small Business Administration (1994–2001, 2012–present)
* Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (1996–2001)
* Director of National Intelligence (2017–present)
* Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2017–2021, 2023–present)
* Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (2021–2025)