Federal Cabinet · Department of Veterans Affairs

United States Secretaries of Veterans Affairs

Every individual who has led the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs — the current secretary, shown first with a “Currently serving” badge, followed by every former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Cabinet secretaries are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate; each profile below records the appointment type (Senate-confirmed, acting, recess, or designated), the full span of service, and the external authority records that back every fact. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.

Currently serving

1

Former secretaries

16

Total

17

Department

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs