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United States Secretary of Transportation

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.

Secretaries of Transportation
Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
Alan Stephenson Boyd[?]	January 16, 1967 - January 20, 1969	Lyndon Johnson
John Anthony Volpe[?]	January 22, 1969 - February 1, 1973	Richard Nixon
Claude Stout Brinegar[?]	February 2, 1973 - February 1, 1975	Richard Nixon
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.[?]	March 7, 1975 - January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
Brock Adams[?]	January 23, 1977 - July 20, 1979	Jimmy Carter
Neil Edward Goldschmidt[?]	August 15, 1979 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Andrew Lindsay Lewis, Jr.[?]	January 23, 1981 - February 1, 1983	Ronald Reagan
Elizabeth Hanford Dole	February 7, 1983 - September 30, 1987	Ronald Reagan
James Horace Burnley IV[?]	December 2, 1987 - January 30, 1989	Ronald Reagan
Samuel Knox Skinner[?]	February 6, 1989 - December 13, 1991	George H. W. Bush
Andrew Hill Card, Jr.	February 24, 1992 - January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Federico Fabian Peña[?]	January 21, 1993 - February 14, 1997	Bill Clinton
Rodney Earl Slater[?]	February 14, 1997 - January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
Norman Yoshio Mineta	January 25, 2001 - present	George W. Bush

Acting Secretaries of Transportation
Name	Year	Acted from
John W. Barnum[?]	1975	February 2 to March 6
W. Graham Claytor, Jr.[?]	1979	July 21 to August 14
James Horace Burnley IV[?]	1987	October 1 to December 2
James B. Busey IV[?]	1991-1992	December 14 to February 23
Mortimer L. Downey[?]	2001	January 21 to January 24

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