United States Secretary of Transportation

The **United States Secretary of Transportation** is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

## List of secretaries of transportation

- Parties
 (8)
 (11)

- Status

||class=unsortable|Portrait|Secretary|State of residence|Took office|Left office|colspan=2|President||||||
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|data-sort-value="Boyd, Alan"|||Florida|||style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Johnson, Lyndon"|(1963–1969)|||||
|data-sort-value="Volpe, John"|||Massachusetts|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Nixon, Richard"|(1969–1974)|||||
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Brinegar, Claude"||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|California|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||||
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Ford, Gerald"|(1974–1977)|||||||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Coleman, Bill"|||Pennsylvania|||||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Adams, Brockman"|||Washington|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Carter, Jimmy"|(1977–1981)|||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Goldschmidt, Neil"|||Oregon|||||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Lewis, Andrew"|||Pennsylvania|||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3 data-sort-value="Reagan, Ronald"|(1981–1989)|||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Dole, Elizabeth"|||Kansas|||||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Burnley, James"|||North Carolina|||||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Skinner, Samuel"|||Illinois|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Bush, George H. W."|(1989–1993)|||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Card, Andy"|||Massachusetts|||||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Peña, Federico Fabian"|||Colorado|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Clinton, Bill"|(1993–2001)|||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Slater, Rodney"|||Arkansas|||||||||
|bgcolor=#E6E6AA data-sort-value="Downey, Mortimer"||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA|Virginia|bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4 data-sort-value="Bush, George W."|(2001–2009)|
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Mineta, Norm"|||California|||||||||
|bgcolor=#E6E6AA data-sort-value="Cino, Maria"||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA|New York|bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Peters, Mary"|||Arizona|||||||||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="LaHood, Ray"|||Illinois|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Obama, Barack"|(2009–2017)|||
|style="background: ;"||data-sort-value="Foxx, Anthony"|||North Carolina|||||||||
|bgcolor=#E6E6AA data-sort-value="Huerta, Michael||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA|California|bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3 data-sort-value="Trump, Donald"|(2017–2021)|
|data-sort-value="Chao, Elaine"|||Kentucky|||||||||||
|bgcolor=#E6E6AA data-sort-value="Bradbury, Steven"||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA|Oregon|bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||||||
|bgcolor=#E6E6AA data-sort-value="Hurdle, Lana"||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA|Virginia|bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Biden, Joe"|(2021–2025)|
|data-sort-value="Buttigieg, Pete"|||Indiana|||||||||||
|bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||bgcolor=#E6E6AA||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2 data-sort-value="Trump, Donald"|(2025–present)|
||Sean Duffy|Wisconsin||_Incumbent_||||||||||

## Living former secreatries of transportation

As of September 2025, there are eleven living former secretaries of transportation, the oldest being Elizabeth Dole (served 1983-1987). The most recent death of a former secretary of transportation was that of Neil Goldschmidt (served 1979-1981) on June 12, 2024.

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: United States Secretary
- **body**: Transportation
- **flag**: Flag of the United States Secretary of Transportation.svg
- **flagborder**: yes
- **flagsize**: 130
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the secretary
- **insignia**: United States Department of Transportation seal.svg
- **insigniasize**: 120
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the Department of Transportation
- **image**: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Official Portrait.jpg
- **incumbent**: Sean Duffy
- **incumbentsince**: January 28, 2025
- **department**: United States Department of Transportation
- **style**: Mr. Secretary (informal)
The Honourable#United States, The Honorable (formal)
- **member of**: the United States Cabinet
- **reports to**: the President of the United States
- **seat**: Washington, D.C.
- **appointer**: President of the United States
- **appointer qualified**: with United States Senate, Senate advice and consent
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **first**: Alan Stephenson Boyd
- **succession**: United States presidential line of succession, Fourteenth
- **deputy**: Deputy Secretary of Transportation
- **salary**: Executive Schedule, Executive Schedule, Level I