United States Secretary of Transportation

United States Secretary of Transportation
Official Seal
Incumbent Elaine Chao since January 31, 2017
Formation	October 15, 1966
First holder	Alan Stephenson Boyd
Succession	Fourteenth
Website	www.dot.gov

The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The current Secretary is Elaine Chao.

Secretaries of Transportation

No.	Name	Term of Offices	President(s) served under
1	Alan Stephenson Boyd	January 16, 1967 – January 20, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
2	John A. Volpe	January 22, 1969 – February 1, 1973	Richard Nixon
3	Claude Brinegar	February 2, 1973 – February 1, 1975	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
4	William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.	March 7, 1975 – January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
5	Brock Adams	January 23, 1979 – July 20, 1979	Jimmy Carter
6	Neil Goldschmidt	August 15, 1979 – January 20, 1981
7	Drew Lewis	January 23, 1981 – February 1, 1983	Ronald Reagan
8	Elizabeth Dole	February 7, 1983 – September 30, 1987
9	James H. Burnley IV	December 2, 1987 – January 30, 1989
10	Samuel K. Skinner	February 6, 1989 – December 13, 1991	George H. W. Bush
11	Andrew Card	February 24, 1992 – January 20, 1993
12	Federico Peña	January 21, 1993 – February 14, 1997	Bill Clinton
13	Rodney E. Slater	February 14, 1997 – January 20, 2001
14	Norman Mineta	January 25, 2001 – July 7, 2006	George W. Bush
15	Mary E. Peters	October 17, 2006 – January 20, 2009
16	Ray LaHood	January 23, 2009 – July 2, 2013	Barack Obama
17	Anthony Foxx	July 2, 2013 – January 20, 2017
Acting	Michael Huerta	January 20, 2017 – January 31, 2017	Donald Trump
18	Elaine Chao	January 31, 2017 – present