Question: Which United States Secretary of Energy has hosted the Texas Conference for Women?
Context: Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (born November 28, 1937) is an American investor and government official who is the current United States Secretary of Commerce.  On November 30, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Ross to be United States Secretary of Commerce.  On February 27, 2017, the Senate confirmed Ross as United States Secretary of Commerce by a margin of 72–27.  He was sworn into office on February 28, 2017. The Texas Conference was a NAIA/NCAA-affiliated college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1926 to 1956.  It was composed mostly of schools from Texas, but also one from New Mexico. The Texas Conference for Women is a nonprofit, nonpartisan leadership conference for women of all ages and backgrounds.  The first annual conference was held in 2000 in Austin, Texas.  From 2000 until 2014, former Governor Rick Perry and former First Lady Anita Perry served as the official hosts of the event, which has featured keynote speakers including Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, author, educator and historian; Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, writer and family health advocate; Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP; Maria Hinojosa, Emmy-nominated journalist and author; and Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Traditionally, the conference has attracted a sold-out crowd of more than 7,500 women. The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the U.S. Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fourteenth in the presidential line of succession.  The position was formed on October 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act.  Originally the post focused on energy production and regulation.  The emphasis soon shifted to developing technology for better and more efficient energy sources as well as energy education.  After the end of the Cold War, the department's attention also turned toward radioactive waste disposal and maintenance of environmental quality.  The current Secretary of Energy is Rick Perry Ryan D. McCarthy is the acting United States Secretary of the Army and a former United States Army Ranger and business executive.  In June 2017, President Donald Trump nominated him to become the United States Under Secretary of the Army.  He was confirmed as United States Under Secretary of the Army by the United States Senate on August 1, 2017, by voice vote, and on August 2, 2017, he assumed duties as acting United States Secretary of the Army. The North American Energy Infrastructure Act ( ) is a bill that would make changes to permitting requirements for pipelines and other energy infrastructure at international borders.  Instead of obtaining a Presidential permit, sponsors of oil pipelines and electric transmission projects that cross international borders would be required to obtain a certificate of crossing from either the United States Secretary of State or the United States Secretary of Energy. James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American author and politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump.  Prior to his cabinet position, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015.  A Republican, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States.  Perry was the longest-serving Governor in Texas history. The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, also known as the Baker Institute, is an American think tank on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas.  Founded in 1993, it functions as a nonpartisan center for public policy research.  According to the "2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report" (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), the institute is No. 18 (of 60) in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States" and No. 4 (of 45) of the "Best University Affiliated Thanks".  Its Center for Energy Studies is ranked No. 2 (of 55) among the world’s energy- and resource-policy think tanks, according to the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program’s 2015 Index Report.  It is named for James A. Baker, III, former United States secretary of state and secretary of the Treasury.  The institute's director Edward P. Djerejian is the former United States ambassador to Israel and Syria and assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs.  The institute's board of advisors include William Barnett (Chair), Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Rice University's President David Leebron. The Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (Texas Conference) is one of two organizational bodies of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the eastern 2/3 of the state of Texas, United States.  It is based in Alvarado, Texas. Ellen Hart Peña (born May 19, 1958 ) is a former world-class runner and lawyer.  She is notable for going public about her bulimia.  She competed in the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials 10,000 meter run and the 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials marathon.  She earned her B.A from Harvard University in 1980 and graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law.  From 1990 to 1992, she served as Executive Director of the Community Action Program at the University of Denver, a service learning program.  She worked as an attorney with the Denver firm of Morrison and Foerster from 1988 to 1990.  She was married to Federico Peña.  Federico was the Mayor of Denver from 1983 to 1991 and the United States Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 1997, during Bill Clinton's presidency.  He also served as the United States Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 1998.  The couple had three children together and were divorced in 2001.
Answer: Rick Perry