Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State
The Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State is the Director of the Executive Secretariat. The position holds a rank equivalent to an Assistant Secretary.[2][3] Each Executive Secretary is appointed by the Secretary of State.[2]
Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State | |
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![]() Seal of the United States Department of State | |
Appointer | Secretary |
Inaugural holder | Lucius Durham Battle |
Formation | 1961 |
Website | Official website |
The Executive Secretary serves as the liaison and the clearinghouse between the State Department’s bureaus and the leadership offices of the Secretary, the Deputy Secretaries, and the Director of Policy Planning. The Executive Secretary also manages relations between the State Department and the White House, the National Security Council, and other cabinet-level agencies.[4] As the head of the Executive Secretariat, the Executive Secretary also manages the State Department's Operations Center and prepares briefing papers about the Department during transitions between presidential administrations.[2]
List of Executive Secretaries
Tenure | Executive Secretary | Secretary of State |
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1961–1962 | Lucius Durham Battle | Dean Rusk |
1962–1963 | William H. Brubeck | |
1963–1969 | Benjamin Huger Read | |
1969–1973 | Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. | William P. Rogers |
1973–1974 | Thomas R. Pickering | Henry Kissinger |
1974–1976 | George Stoney Springsteen Jr. | |
1976–1977 | C. Arthur Borg | |
1977–1981 | Peter Tarnoff | Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie |
1981–1983 | L. Paul Bremer | Alexander Haig, George Shultz |
1983–1985 | Charles Hill | George Shultz |
1985–1987 | Nicholas Platt | |
1987–1989 | Melvyn Levitsky | |
1989–1991 | J. Stapleton Roy | James Baker |
1991–1993 | W. Robert Pearson | James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger |
1993–1994 | Marc Isaiah Grossman | Warren Christopher |
1994–1996 | Kenneth C. Brill | |
1996–1998 | William J. Burns | Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright |
1998–2001 | Kristie Ann Kenney | Madeleine Albright |
2001–2002 | Maura Ann Harty | Colin Powell |
2002–2005 | Karl William Hofmann | |
2005–2007 | Harry K. Thomas Jr. | Condoleezza Rice |
2007–2009 | Daniel Bennett Smith | |
2009–2012 | Stephen D. Mull | Hillary Clinton |
2012–2014 | John R. Bass | Hillary Clinton, John Kerry |
2014–2017 | Joseph E. Macmanus | John Kerry |
2017–2020 | Lisa D. Kenna | Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo |
2021–2023 | Kamala S. Lakhdhir | Antony Blinken |
2023-present | Dereck J. Hogan |
References
- https://www.state.gov/biographies/dereck-j-hogan/
- "Executive Secretary". U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
- "Assistant Secretaries and Equivalent Rank". U.S. Department of State. January 20, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- "State Department gets new executive secretary". Foreign Policy. October 9, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2015.