United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

The **United States Secretary of Health and Human Services** is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with _health matters._  The Secretary reports to the President of the United States. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

## List of secretaries

- Parties
 (9)
 (15)
 (2)

**Status**

### Health, education, and welfare

|No.|class=unsortable|Portrait|Name|State of residence|Took office|Left office|colspan=2|President(s)||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||Texas|April 11, 1953|July 31, 1955|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1953–1961)||
|||New York|August 2, 1955|July 31, 1958||||||
|||Ohio|August 1, 1958|January 19, 1961||||||
|||Connecticut|January 21, 1961|July 13, 1962|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1961–1963)||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Ohio|rowspan=2|July 31, 1962|rowspan=2|August 17, 1965|
|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1963–1969)|||||||
|||California|August 18, 1965|March 1, 1968||||||
|||Michigan|May 16, 1968|January 20, 1969||||||
|||California|January 21, 1969|June 23, 1970|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1969–1974)||
|||Massachusetts|June 24, 1970|January 29, 1973||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|California|rowspan=2|February 12, 1973|rowspan=2|August 8, 1975|
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1974–1977)|||||||
|||Alabama|August 8, 1975|January 20, 1977||||||
|||District of Columbia|January 25, 1977|August 3, 1979|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1977–1981)||
|||District of Columbia|August 3, 1979|May 4, 1980||||||

### Health and human services

|No.|class=unsortable|Portrait|Name|State of residence|Took office|Left office|colspan=2|President(s)||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||District of Columbia|May 4, 1980|January 20, 1981|style="background: ;"||(1977–1981)|||||||
|||Pennsylvania|January 22, 1981|February 3, 1983|rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1981–1989)||||||
|||Massachusetts|March 10, 1983|December 13, 1985||||||||||
|||Indiana|December 13, 1985|March 1, 1989||||||||||
|||Georgia|March 1, 1989|January 20, 1993|(1989–1993)|||||||||
|||Wisconsin|January 22, 1993|January 20, 2001|style="background: ;"||(1993–2001)|||||||
|||Wisconsin|February 2, 2001|January 26, 2005|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2001–2009)||||||
|||Utah|January 26, 2005|January 20, 2009||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Utah|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|January 20, 2009|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|April 28, 2009|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(2009–2017)|
|||Kansas|April 28, 2009|June 9, 2014||||||||||
|||West Virginia|June 9, 2014|January 20, 2017||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Florida|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|January 20, 2017|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|February 10, 2017|rowspan=5 style="background: ;"||rowspan=5|(2017–2021)|
|||Georgia|February 10, 2017|September 29, 2017||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Virginia|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|September 29, 2017|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|October 10, 2017|||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Illinois|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|October 10, 2017|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|January 29, 2018|||||
|||Indiana|January 29, 2018|January 20, 2021||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Florida|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|January 20, 2021|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|March 19, 2021|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2021–2025)|
|||California|March 19, 2021|January 20, 2025||||||||||
|style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"||style="background:#e6e6aa;"|Pennsylvania|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|January 20, 2025|style="background:#e6e6aa;"|February 13, 2025|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2025–present)|
||Robert F. Kennedy Jr.|California|February 13, 2025|Incumbent||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: United States Secretary
- **body**: Health and Human Services
- **flag**: Flag of the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.svg
- **flagborder**: yes
- **flagsize**: 130
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the secretary
- **insignia**: US Department of Health and Human Services seal.svg
- **insigniasize**: 120
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the department
- **image**: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., official portrait (2025) (cropped 3-4).jpg
- **incumbent**: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- **incumbentsince**: February 13, 2025
- **department**: United States Department of Health and Human Services
- **style**: Mr. Secretary (informal)
The Honourable#United States, The Honorable (formal)
- **member of**: the United States Cabinet
- **reports to**: President of the United States
- **seat**: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Washington, D.C.
- **appointer**: President of the United States
- **appointer qualified**: with United States Senate, Senate advice and consent
- **termlength**: At the President's Pleasure
- **constituting instrument**: Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953

- **first**: Oveta Culp Hobby
- **succession**: United States presidential line of succession, Twelfth
- **deputy**: United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
- **salary**: Executive Schedule, Executive Schedule, Level I