List of first women to hold U.S. Cabinet Secretaryships
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This is a list of the first women to hold U.S. Cabinet Secretaryships:
There has never been a female U.S. Treasury Secretary, U.S. Defense Secretary, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary or U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary.
No woman served, while they were Cabinet-level offices, as U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Postmaster General, U.S. Secretary of the Navy or U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
- U.S. Secretary of State: Madeline Albright (1997, Clinton Administration)
- U.S. Attorney General: Janet Reno (1993, Clinton Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of the Interior: Gale Norton (2001, G.W. Bush Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture: Ann Veneman (2001, G.W. Bush Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Commerce: Juanita Morris Kreps (1977, Carter Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Labor: Frances Perkins (1933, F.D. Roosevelt Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: Oveta Culp Hobby (1953, Eisenhower Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services: Patricia Roberts Harris (1977, Carter Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Carla Anderson Hills (1975, Ford Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Transportation: Elizabeth Dole (1983, Reagan Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Energy: Hazel O'Leary (1993, Clinton Administration)
- U.S. Secretary of Education: Shirley Hufstedler (1979, Carter Administration)