Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The **Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency** is the head of the United States federal government's Environmental Protection Agency. It is responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as many other environmental statutes.

## How are they nominated?

The Administrator is nominated by the President of the United States and must be confirmed by a vote of the Senate. The office of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 in legislation that created the Environmental Protection Agency.

## List of administrators

|colspan=2 scope=col|Officeholder|scope=col|Term|colspan=2|President(s)|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|– April 30, 1973|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– September 12, 1973|||||
|rowspan=2 style="padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;"||||||||||
|rowspan=2 style="padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;"|– January 20, 1977|||||||||
|rowspan="1" style="background: ;"||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– March 6, 1977|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2||
|– January 20, 1981||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– January 25, 1981|rowspan=7 style="background: ;"||rowspan=7||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– May 19, 1981|||||
|– March 9, 1983||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– May 17, 1983|||||
|– January 4, 1985||||||||||
|rowspan=2||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– February 8, 1985|||||||||
|– January 20, 1989||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– February 6, 1989|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2||
|– January 20, 1993||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– January 31, 1993|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2||
|– January 20, 2001||||||||||
|– June 27, 2003|rowspan=6 style="background: ;"||rowspan=6|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– July 14, 2003|||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– November 5, 2003|||||
|– January 26, 2005||||||||||
|rowspan=2||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– May 2, 2005|||||||||
|– January 20, 2009||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– January 21, 2009|rowspan=5 style="background: ;"||rowspan=5||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– January 23, 2009|||||
|– February 15, 2013||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– July 18, 2013|||||
|– January 20, 2017||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|****|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– February 17, 2017|rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4||
|– July 9, 2018||||||||||
|rowspan=2||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– February 28, 2019|||||||||
|– January 20, 2021||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|**** <small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|**** <small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– March 11, 2021|||||
|||!scope=row|****|– December 31, 2024||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|**** <small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– January 20, 2025|||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|**** <small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|Donald Trump|
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA" !scope=row|**** <small>Acting</small>|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|– January 29, 2025|||||
|||!scope=row|****|– present||||||

## List of former administrators of the environmental protection agency

As of September 2025, there are eleven living former administrators of the environmental protection agency, the oldest being William K. Reilly (served 1989-1993). The most recent death of a former administrator of the environmental protection agency was that of William Ruckelshaus (served 1970-1973, 1983-1985) on November 27, 2019.

## Other websites

- U.S. EPA History: Administrator photos, biographies, publications

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Administrator
- **body**: the Environmental Protection Agency
- **insignia**: File:Seal of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.svg
- **insigniasize**: 150
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the Environmental Protection Agency
- **image**: Lee-Zeldin-EPA-Official-Portrait.jpg
- **incumbent**: Lee Zeldin
- **incumbentsince**: January 29, 2025
- **member of**: Cabinet of the United States, Cabinet
- **inaugural**: William D. Ruckelshaus
- **formation**: 1970