List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries
Current departments
Table:
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Secretary

Position

Year
appointed

Party

Administration

Ref.

1

Madeleine Albright*[b]

Secretary of State

1997

Democratic

Bill Clinton

[21]

1

Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of State

2005

Republican

George W. Bush

[9]

1

Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State

2009

Democratic

Barack Obama

[13]

2

—[c]

Secretary of the Treasury
—[c]
—[c]
—[c]
—

3

—[d]

Secretary of Defense
—[d]
—[d]
—[d]
—

4

Janet Reno*

Attorney General

1993

Democratic

Bill Clinton

[22]

4

Loretta Lynch

Attorney General

2015

Democratic

Barack Obama

[23]

5

Gale Norton*

Secretary of the Interior

2001

Republican

George W. Bush

[24]

5

Sally Jewell

Secretary of the Interior

2013

Democratic

Barack Obama

[25][26]

6

Ann Veneman*

Secretary of Agriculture

2001

Republican

George W. Bush

[27]

7

Juanita M. Kreps*

Secretary of Commerce

1977

Democratic

Jimmy Carter

[28]

7

Barbara Franklin

Secretary of Commerce

1992

Republican

George H. W. Bush

[29][30]

7

Penny Pritzker

Secretary of Commerce

2013

Democratic

Barack Obama

[31]

8

Frances Perkins*

Secretary of Labor

1933

Democratic

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[2][3]

8

Ann Dore McLaughlin

Secretary of Labor

1987

Republican

Ronald Reagan

[32]

8

Elizabeth Dole

Secretary of Labor

1989

Republican

George H. W. Bush

[7]

8

Lynn Morley Martin

Secretary of Labor

1991

Republican

George H. W. Bush

[33]

8

Alexis Herman

Secretary of Labor

1997

Democratic

Bill Clinton

[34]

8

Elaine Chao[a]

Secretary of Labor

2001

Republican

George W. Bush

[35]

8

Hilda Solis

Secretary of Labor

2009

Democratic

Barack Obama

[14]

9

Patricia Roberts Harris*

Secretary of Health and Human Services

1979

Democratic

Jimmy Carter

[6]

9

Margaret Heckler

Secretary of Health and Human Services

1983

Republican

Ronald Reagan

[36]

9

Donna Shalala

Secretary of Health and Human Services

1993

Democratic

Bill Clinton

[37]

9

Kathleen Sebelius

Secretary of Health and Human Services

2009

Democratic

Barack Obama

[15]

9

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Secretary of Health and Human Services

2014

Democratic

Barack Obama

[38]

10

Carla Anderson Hills*

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

1975

Republican

Gerald Ford

[39]

10

Patricia Roberts Harris

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

1977

Democratic

Jimmy Carter

[6]

11

Elizabeth Dole*

Secretary of Transportation

1983

Republican

Ronald Reagan

[7]

11

Mary Peters

Secretary of Transportation

2006

Republican

George W. Bush

[40]

11

Elaine Chao

Secretary of Transportation

2017

Republican

Donald Trump

[41]

12

Hazel R. O'Leary*

Secretary of Energy

1993

Democratic

Bill Clinton

[42]

13

Shirley Hufstedler*

Secretary of Education

1979

Democratic

Jimmy Carter

[43]

13

Margaret Spellings

Secretary of Education

2005

Republican

George W. Bush

[44]

13

Betsy DeVos

Secretary of Education

2017

Republican

Donald Trump

[45]

14

—[e]

Secretary of Veterans Affairs
—[e]
—[e]
—[e]
—

15

Janet Napolitano*

Secretary of Homeland Security

2009

Democratic

Barack Obama

[12]

15

Kirstjen Nielsen

Secretary of Homeland Security

2017

Republican

Donald Trump

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