United States Secretary of Labor

The **United States Secretary of Labor** is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.

## List of secretaries of labor

- Parties
 (13)
 (16)

**Status**

|No.|class=unsortable|Portrait|Name|State of residence|Took office|Left office|colspan=2|President(s)||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||Pennsylvania|||style="background: ;"||(1913–1921)|||||||||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Pennsylvania|rowspan=3||rowspan=3||style="background: ;"||(1921–1923)||||
|style="background: ;"||(1923–1929)||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1929–1933)|||||||||||||
|||Virginia||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New York|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||style="background: ;"||(1933–1945)||||
|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1945–1953)|||||||||||||
|||Washington||||||||||||||
|||Massachusetts||||||||||||||
|||Maryland|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1953–1961)||||||||
|||New Jersey||||||||||||||
|||Illinois|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1961–1963)||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Illinois|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||||||||
|style="background: ;"||(1963–1969)||||||||||||||
|||Illinois|||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1969–1974)||||||||
|||California||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New York|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||||||||
|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1974–1977)|||||||||||||
|||Massachusetts||||||||||||||
|||Georgia||||||||||||||
|||Texas|||style="background: ;"||(1977–1981)|||||||||
|||New Jersey|||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1981–1989)||||||||
|||Tennessee||||||||||||||
|||District of Columbia||||||||||||||
|||Kansas|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1989–1993)||||||||
|||Illinois||||||||||||||
|||Massachusetts|||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1993–2001)||||||||
|||Alabama||||||||||||||
|||Kentucky|||style="background: ;"||(2001–2009)|||||||||
|style="background: ;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Pennsylvania|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||rowspan=5 style="background: ;"||rowspan=5|(2009–2017)|
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Pennsylvania|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||||||||
|||California||||||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|New York|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||||||||
|||Maryland||||||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Pennsylvania|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(2017–2021)|||
|||Florida||||||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Virginia|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||||||||
|||Virginia||||||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Virginia|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(2021–2025)|||
|||Massachusetts||||||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|California|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2025–present)|||
||Lori Chavez-DeRemer|Oregon|March 11, 2025|Incumbent||||||||||||

## Living former secretaries of labor

As of September 2025, there are eleven living former secretaries of labor, the oldest being Ray Marshall (served 1977-1981). The most recent death of a former secretary of state was that of Alexis Herman (served 1997-2001) on April 25, 2025.

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: United States Secretary
- **body**: Labor
- **flag**: Flag of the United States Secretary of Labor.svg
- **flagborder**: yes
- **flagsize**: 130
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the secretary
- **insignia**: USDOL Seal circa 2015.svg
- **insigniasize**: 120
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the department
- **image**: L-25-03-12-A-SecretaryLoriChavez-DeRemer.jpg
- **incumbent**: Lori Chavez-DeRemer
- **incumbentsince**: March 11, 2025
- **department**: United States Department of Labor
- **style**: Madam Secretary (informal)
The Honourable#United States, The Honorable (formal)
- **member of**: United States Cabinet, Cabinet
- **reports to**: President of the United States
- **seat**: Frances Perkins Building, Washington, D.C.
- **appointer**: The President of the United States
- **appointer qualified**: with United States Senate, Senate advice and consent
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **first**: William B. Wilson
- **precursor**: United States Department of Commerce and Labor, Secretary of Commerce and Labor
- **succession**: United States presidential line of succession, Eleventh
- **deputy**: Deputy Secretary of Labor
- **salary**: Executive Schedule, Executive Schedule, Level I