United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

The **United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development** is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, concerned with _urban housing matters._  The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

On January 13, 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed to the position.

## Chronological list

- Parties
 (9)
 (9)
- Status

|No.|Portrait|Name|State of residence|Took office|Left office|colspan="2"|President(s)|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Robert C. Weaver|New York|January 18, 1966|December 18, 1968|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Lyndon B. Johnson||||||
||Robert C. Wood|Massachusetts|January 7, 1969|January 20, 1969||||||||||
||George W. Romney|Michigan|January 22, 1969|January 20, 1973|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Richard Nixon||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|James T. Lynn|rowspan="2"|Ohio|rowspan="2"|February 2, 1973|rowspan="2"|February 5, 1975|||||
|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Gerald Ford|||||||||||
||Carla A. Hills|California|March 10, 1975|January 20, 1977||||||||||
||Patricia R. Harris|District of Columbia|January 23, 1977|September 10, 1979|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Jimmy Carter||||||
||Maurice E. Landrieu|Louisiana|September 24, 1979|January 20, 1981||||||||||
||Samuel R. Pierce|New York|January 23, 1981|January 20, 1989|style="background: ;"||Ronald Reagan|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|J. Michael Dorsey|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|New York|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 1989|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 13, 1989|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|George H. W. Bush|
||Jack F. Kemp|New York|February 13, 1989|January 20, 1993||||||||||
||Henry G. Cisneros|Texas|January 22, 1993|January 20, 1997|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Bill Clinton||||||
||Andrew M. Cuomo|New York|January 29, 1997|January 20, 2001||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|William C. Apgar|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2001|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 24, 2001|rowspan="6" style="background: ;"||rowspan="6"|George W. Bush|
||Mel Martinez|Florida|January 24, 2001|November 1, 2003||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Alphonso Jackson|rowspan="2"|Texas|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|November 1, 2003|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|August 1, 2004|||||
|August 1, 2004|April 18, 2008|||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Roy A. Bernardi|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|New York|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|April 18, 2008|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|June 4, 2008|||||
||Steve Preston|Illinois|June 4, 2008|January 20, 2009||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Brian D. Montgomery|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Texas|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2009|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 26, 2009|rowspan="3" style="background: ;"||rowspan="3"|Barack Obama|
||Shaun Donovan|New York|January 26, 2009|July 28, 2014||||||||||
||Julián Castro|Texas|July 28, 2014|January 20, 2017||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Craig Clemmensen|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2017|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|March 2, 2017|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Donald Trump|
||Ben Carson|Florida|March 2, 2017|January 20, 2021||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Matt Ammon|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2021|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|March 10, 2021|rowspan="3" style="background: ;"||rowspan="3"|Joe Biden|
||Marcia Fudge|Ohio|March 10, 2021|March 22, 2024||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Adrianne Todman|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|U.S. Virgin Islands|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|March 22, 2024|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2025|||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Matt Ammon|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 20, 2025|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 5, 2025|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Donald Trump|
||Scott Turner|Texas|February 5, 2025|_Incumbent_||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: United States Secretary
- **body**: Housing and Urban Development
- **flag**: Flag of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.svg
- **flagsize**: 130
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the department
- **insignia**: Seal of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.svg
- **insigniasize**: 120
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the department
- **image**: Scott Turner, official portrait (2025).jpg
- **incumbent**: Scott Turner (politician), Scott Turner
- **incumbentsince**: February 5, 2025
- **department**: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
- **style**: Dr. Secretary
(informal)
The Honourable#United States, The Honorable
(formal)
- **member of**: United States Cabinet, Cabinet
- **reports to**: President of the United States
- **seat**: Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
- **appointer**: The President of the United States, President
- **appointer qualified**: with United States Senate, Senate advice and consent
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **first**: Robert C. Weaver
- **succession**: United States presidential line of succession, Thirteenth
- **deputy**: Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- **salary**: Executive Schedule, Executive Schedule, level I