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.

United States Secretary of Transportation
Seal of the Department of Transportation
Flag of the secretary
Incumbent Sean Duffy since January 28, 2025
United States Department of Transportation
Style	Mr. Secretary (informal) The Honorable (formal)
Member of	the United States Cabinet
Reports to	the President of the United States
Seat	Washington, D.C.
Appointer	President of the United States with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	49 U.S.C. § 102
Formation	October 15, 1966 (1966-10-15)
First holder	Alan Stephenson Boyd
Succession	Fourteenth
Deputy	Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Salary	Executive Schedule, Level I
Website	transportation.gov

List of secretaries of transportation

Parties

  Democratic (8)   Republican (11)

Status

  Denotes acting Secretary of Transportation

No.	Portrait	Secretary	State of residence	Took office	Left office	President
1		Alan S. Boyd	Florida	January 16, 1967	January 20, 1969		Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)
2		John Volpe	Massachusetts	January 22, 1969	February 2, 1973		Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
3		Claude Brinegar	California	February 2, 1973	February 1, 1975
							Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
4		William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.	Pennsylvania	March 7, 1975	January 20, 1977
5		Brock Adams	Washington	January 23, 1977	July 20, 1979		Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
6		Neil Goldschmidt	Oregon	September 24, 1979	January 20, 1981
7		Drew Lewis	Pennsylvania	January 23, 1981	February 1, 1983		Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
8		Elizabeth Dole	Kansas	February 7, 1983	September 30, 1987
9		James H. Burnley IV	North Carolina	December 3, 1987	January 20, 1989
10		Samuel K. Skinner	Illinois	February 6, 1989	December 13, 1991		George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)
11		Andrew Card	Massachusetts	February 24, 1992	January 20, 1993
12		Federico Peña	Colorado	January 21, 1993	February 14, 1997		Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
13		Rodney E. Slater	Arkansas	February 14, 1997	January 20, 2001
–		Mortimer L. Downey III Acting	Virginia	January 20, 2001	January 25, 2001		George W. Bush (2001–2009)
14		Norman Mineta	California	January 25, 2001	August 7, 2006
–		Maria Cino Acting	New York	August 7, 2006	October 17, 2006
15		Mary E. Peters	Arizona	October 17, 2006	January 20, 2009
16		Ray LaHood	Illinois	January 23, 2009	July 2, 2013		Barack Obama (2009–2017)
17		Anthony Foxx	North Carolina	July 2, 2013	January 20, 2017
–		Michael Huerta Acting	California	January 20, 2017	January 31, 2017		Donald Trump (2017–2021)
18		Elaine Chao	Kentucky	January 31, 2017	January 11, 2021
–		Steven G. Bradbury Acting	Oregon	January 12, 2021	January 20, 2021
–		Lana Hurdle Acting	Virginia	January 20, 2021	February 3, 2021		Joe Biden (2021–2025)
19		Pete Buttigieg	Indiana	February 3, 2021	January 20, 2025
–		Judith Kaleta Acting		January 20, 2025	January 28, 2025		Donald Trump (2025–present)
20		Sean Duffy	Wisconsin	January 28, 2025	Incumbent