White House Press Secretary

The **White House Press Secretary** is a job at the White House. Press secretaries act as the primary spokesperson for the United States Government and the President, senior executives, and policies. Karoline Leavitt is the current White House Press Secretary.

## List of Press Secretaries

|Year(s)|Press Secretary|President|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1929–1931|George Edward Akerson|rowspan=2|Herbert Hoover||
|1931–1933|Theodore Goldsmith Joslin||||
|1933–1945|Stephen Early|Franklin Delano Roosevelt|||
|1945|Jonathan W. Daniels|rowspan=5|Harry S. Truman||
|1945–1950|Charlie Ross||||
|1950|Stephen Early||||
|1950–1952|Joseph Short||||
|1952–1953|Roger Tubby||||
|1953–1961|James Hagerty|Dwight D. Eisenhower|||
|rowspan=2|1961–1964|rowspan=2 style="padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;"|Pierre Salinger|John F. Kennedy|
|rowspan=4|Lyndon B. Johnson||||
|1964–1965|George Reedy||||
|1965–1966|Bill Moyers||||
|1966–1969|George Christian||||
|1969–1974|Ron Ziegler|Richard Nixon|||
|1974|Jerald terHorst|rowspan=2|Gerald Ford||
|1974–1977|Ron Nessen||||
|1977–1981|Jody Powell|Jimmy Carter|||
|1981–1989|James Brady<sup>1</sup>|rowspan=3|Ronald Reagan||
|1981–1987|Larry Speakes<sup>2</sup>||||
|1987–1989|Marlin Fitzwater<sup>2</sup>||||
|1989–1993|Marlin Fitzwater|George H.W. Bush|||
|1993–1994|Dee Dee Myers<sup>3</sup>|rowspan=5|Bill Clinton||
|1993|George Stephanopoulos<sup>4</sup>||||
|1994–1998|Mike McCurry||||
|1998–2000|Joe Lockhart||||
|2000–2001|Jake Siewert||||
|2001–2003|Ari Fleischer|rowspan=4|George W. Bush||
|2003–2006|Scott McClellan||||
|2006–2007|Tony Snow||||
|2007–2009|Dana Perino||||
|2009–2011|Robert Gibbs|rowspan=3|Barack Obama||
|2011–2014|Jay Carney||||
|2014–2017|Josh Earnest||||
|2017|Sean Spicer|rowspan=4|Donald Trump||
|2017–2019|Sarah Sanders||||
|2019–2020|Stephanie Grisham||||
|2020–2021|Kayleigh McEnany||||
|2021–2022|Jen Psaki|rowspan=2|Joe Biden||
|2022–2025|Karine Jean-Pierre||||
|2025–present|Karoline Leavitt|Donald Trump|||
- <sup>1</sup> Did not brief the press after being wounded in the Reagan assassination attempt.
- <sup>2</sup> _De facto_ Press Secretary (as White House Deputy Press Secretary).
- <sup>3</sup> Did not brief the press while Stephanopoulos was Communications Director. First female Press Secretary.
- <sup>4</sup> _De facto_ Press Secretary (as White House Communications Director).

## Other websites

- Briefing Room  at the official White House website
- George W. Bush Administration Press Briefings at the National Archives and Records Administration's archive of the official White House website
- Clinton administration archives  at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center

## Infobox (us cabinet)

- **post**: White House Press Secretary
- **insignia**: The White House logo under Trump 2.0.jpg
- **insigniasize**: 150px
- **image**: Official portrait of Karoline Leavitt, 2025 (cropped 2).jpg
- **incumbent**: Karoline Leavitt
- **incumbentsince**: January 20, 2025
- **department**: White House Office of the Press Secretary
- **first**: George Akerson
- **appointer**: President of the United States
- **website**: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/
- **salary**: $180,000 United States dollar, USD (2024)
- **insigniacaption**: Logo of the White House.