Women in the White House
Carter- 4* Reagan- 3 George H. Bush- 3 Clinton- 4 George W. Bush- 3
* Patricia Roberts Harris served in two cabinet positions.
The Bush Presidential Staff:
National
Security Adviser: Condoleezza Rice
Assistant
to the President for Domestic Policy: Margaret La Montagne
Assistant to the
President: Mary Matalin
Counselor to the
President: Karen P. Hughes
Director of Communications:
Margaret D. Tutwiler
Cabinet Members:
Secretary
of the Department of Agriculture: Ann M. Veneman
Secretary
of the Department of Interior: Gale Norton
Secretary
of the Department of Labor: Elaine Chao
Cabinet Rank Members:
Environmental
Protection Agency: Christie Todd Whitman
Other Notable Past Female Cabinet Members:
Frances
Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration, first woman to hold
a presidential cabinet position and longest serving Secretary of Labor
with being in the position for 12 years.
Oveta
Culp Hobby, Eisenhower Administration, second woman to hold a presidential
cabinet position and first Secretary of the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Carla
A. Hills, Ford Administration, first female Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development and also served as assistant attorney general; and U.S.
Trade Representative in the George H. Bush Administration.
Shirley Mount
Hufstedler, Carter Administration, first Secretary of Education.
Patricia
Roberts Harris, Carter Administration, first female Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development and first Secretary of Health and Human Services.
She was the first African-American woman in a presidential cabinet position.
Juanita M. Kreps,
Carter Administration, served as the first female Secretary of Commerce.
Elizabeth
Dole served as Secretary of Transportation in the Reagan Administration
and Secretary of Labor in the George H. Bush Administration.
Madeleine
Albright served as the first female Secretary of the State in the Clinton
Administration.
Janet
Reno served as the first female Attorney General in the Clinton Administration.
Cheney Vice Presidential Staff:
Counselor to the
Vice President: Mary Matalin
Deputy Assistant
for Communications and Press Secretary: Jennifer Millerwise
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