Commissioner of Food and Drugs

The **United States Commissioner of Food and Drugs** is the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The commissioner is appointed by the President of the United States with confirmation of the Senate. The commissioner reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

## List of commissioners

_Unnumbered, colored rows indicate acting commissioners._

|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Name <small>(birth–death)</small>|rowspan="2"|Photo|colspan="2"|Term of office|rowspan="2"|Appointed by <small>(term)</small>|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Harvey Washington Wiley||January 1, 1907|March 15, 1912|Theodore Roosevelt|||||
|2|Carl L. Alsberg||December 16, 1912|July 15, 1921|William Howard Taft|||||
|3|Walter G. Campbell||July 16, 1921|June 30, 1924|Warren G. Harding|||||
|4|Charles Albert Browne Jr.||July 1, 1924|June 30, 1927|Calvin Coolidge|||||
|3|Walter G. Campbell||July 1, 1927|April 30, 1944|Calvin Coolidge|||||
|5|Paul B. Dunbar||May 6, 1944|May 31, 1951|Franklin D. Roosevelt|||||
|6|Charles W. Crawford||June 1, 1951|July 31, 1954|Harry S. Truman|||||
|7|George P. Larrick||August 12, 1954|December 27, 1965|Dwight D. Eisenhower|||||
|8|James L. Goddard||January 17, 1966|July 1, 1968|Lyndon B. Johnson|||||
|9|Herbert L. Ley Jr.||July 1, 1968|December 12, 1969|Lyndon B. Johnson|||||
|10|Charles C. Edwards||December 13, 1969|March 15, 1973|Richard Nixon|||||
|11|Alexander M. Schmidt||July 20, 1973|November 30, 1976|Richard Nixon|||||
|12|Donald Kennedy||April 4, 1977|June 30, 1979|Jimmy Carter|||||
|13|Jere E. Goyan||October 21, 1979|January 20, 1981|Jimmy Carter|||||
|14|Arthur H. Hayes Jr.||April 13, 1981|September 11, 1983|Ronald Reagan|||||
|15|Frank E. Young||July 15, 1984|December 17, 1989|Ronald Reagan|||||
|16|David A. Kessler||November 8, 1990|February 28, 1997|George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton|||||
|17|Jane E. Henney||January 17, 1999|January 19, 2001|Bill Clinton|||||
|18|Mark McClellan||November 14, 2002|March 26, 2004|George W. Bush|||||
|19|Lester Crawford||July 18, 2005|September 23, 2005|George W. Bush|||||
|20|Andrew von Eschenbach||December 13, 2006|January 20, 2009|George W. Bush|||||
|21|Margaret Hamburg||May 22, 2009|April 1, 2015|Barack Obama|||||
|–|Stephen Ostroff||April 1, 2015|February 22, 2016|Barack Obama|||||
|22|Robert Califf||February 22, 2016|January 20, 2017|Barack Obama|||||
|–|Stephen Ostroff||January 20, 2017|May 11, 2017|Donald Trump|||||
|23|Scott Gottlieb||May 11, 2017|April 5, 2019|Donald Trump|||||
|–|Norman Sharpless||April 5, 2019|November 1, 2019|Donald Trump|||||
|–|Brett Giroir||November 6, 2019|December 17, 2019|Donald Trump|||||
|24|Stephen Hahn||December 17, 2019|January 20, 2021|Donald Trump|||||
|–|Janet Woodcock||January 20, 2021|February 17, 2022|Joe Biden|||||
|25|Robert Califf||February 17, 2022|January 20, 2025|Joe Biden|||||
|26|Marty Makary||April 1, 2025|Incumbent|Donald Trump|||||

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: United States Commissioner of Food and Drugs
- **image**: Makary Martin 900x900 Flag.jpg
- **incumbent**: Marty Makary
- **incumbentsince**: April 1, 2025
- **department**: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration
- **reports to**: United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Health and Human Services
- **termlength**: No fixed term