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 Norman Mineta, the only Democrat in the cabinet of President George W. Bush.

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
Brockman Adams	January 23, 1977 - July 20, 1979	Jimmy Carter
Neil Goldschmidt	August 15, 1979 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.	January 23, 1981 - February 1, 1983	Ronald Reagan
Elizabeth Hanford Dole	February 7, 1983 - September 30, 1987	Ronald Reagan
James H. Burnley IV	December 2, 1987 - January 30, 1989	Ronald Reagan
Samuel K. Skinner	February 6, 1989 - December 13, 1991	George H. W. Bush
Andrew Card	February 24, 1992 - January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Federico Peña	January 21, 1993 - February 14, 1997	Bill Clinton
Rodney Slater	February 14, 1997 - January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
Norman 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