Labor

Department of Labor
Secretary Elaine Chao


Previous Secretaries listed after headlines

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March 6, 1913 - March 4, 1921 -- William B. Wilson
March 5, 1921 - November 30, 1930 -- James J. Davis
December 9, 1930 - March 4, 1933 -- William N. Doak
March 4, 1933 - June 30, 1945 -- Frances Perkins (first woman)
July 1, 1945 - June 10, 1948 -- Lewis B. Schwellenbach
August 13, 1948 - January 20, 1953 -- Maurice J. Tobin
January 21, 1953 - September 10, 1953 -- Martin P. Durkin
October 9, 1953 - January 20, 1961 -- James P. Mitchell
January 21, 1961 - September 20, 1962 -- Arthur J. Goldberg
September 25, 1962 - January 20, 1969 -- W. Willard Wirtz
January 22, 1969 - July 1, 1970 -- George P. Shultz
July 2, 1970 - February 1, 1973 -- James D. Hodgson
February 2, 1973 - March 15, 1975 -- Peter J. Brennan
March 18, 1975 - January 31, 1976 -- John T. Dunlop
February 10, 1976 - January 20, 1977 -- W. J. Usery Jr.
January 27, 1977 - January 20, 1981 -- Ray Marshall
February 4, 1981 - March 15, 1985 -- Raymond J. Donovan
April 29, 1985 - October 31, 1987 -- William E. Brock
December 17, 1987 - January 20, 1989 -- Ann Dore McLaughlin
January 25, 1989 - November 23, 1990 -- Elizabeth Hanford Dole
November 24, 1990 - February 21, 1991 -- Roderick Allen DeArment (Acting)
February 22, 1991 - January 20, 1993 -- Lynn Morley Martin
January 22, 1993 - January 10, 1997 -- Robert B. Reich
May 1, 1997 - January 20, 2001 -- Alexis M. Herman
January 29, 2001 - present -- Elaine L. Chao