Past Secretaries of Labor

The official portraits of the Secretaries of Labor, along with brief biographies, are on permanent display in the Great Hall of the U.S. Department of Labor's Frances Perkins Building.

Martin J. Walsh

2021-2023

Eugene Scalia

2019-2021

Alexander Acosta

2017-2019

Thomas E. Perez

2013-2017

Hilda L. Solis

2009-2013

Elaine L. Chao

2001-2009

Alexis M. Herman

1997-2001

Robert B. Reich

1993-1997

Lynn Morley Martin

1991-1993

Elizabeth Hanford Dole

1989-1990

Ann Dore McLaughlin

1987-1989

William E. Brock

1985-1987

Raymond J. Donovan

1981-1985

Ray Marshall

1977-1981

W. J. Usery, Jr.

1976-1977

John T. Dunlop

1975-1976

Peter J. Brennan

1973-1975

James D. Hodgson

1970-1973

George P. Shultz

1969-1970

W. Willard Wirtz

1962-1969

Arthur J. Goldberg

1961-1962

James P. Mitchell

1953-1961

Martin P. Durkin

1953

Maurice J. Tobin

1948-1953

Lewis B. Schwellenbach

1945-1948

Frances Perkins

1933-1945

William N. Doak

1930-1933

James J. Davis

1921-1930

William B. Wilson

1913-1921