Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State

Executive Secretary of the
United States Department of State
Seal of the United States Department of State
since August 7, 2023
AppointerSecretary
Inaugural holderLucius Durham Battle
Formation1961
WebsiteOfficial website

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]

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
1 1961–1962 Lucius Durham Battle Dean Rusk
2 1962–1963 William H. Brubeck
3 1963–1969 Benjamin Huger Read
4 1969–1973 Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. William P. Rogers
5 1973–1974 Thomas R. Pickering Henry Kissinger
6 1974–1976 George Stoney Springsteen Jr.
7 1976–1977 C. Arthur Borg
8 1977–1981 Peter Tarnoff Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie
9 1981–1983 L. Paul Bremer Alexander Haig, George Shultz
10 1983–1985 Charles Hill George Shultz
11 1985–1987 Nicholas Platt
12 1987–1989 Melvyn Levitsky
13 1989–1991 J. Stapleton Roy James Baker
14 1991–1993 W. Robert Pearson James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger
15 1993–1994 Marc Isaiah Grossman Warren Christopher
16 1994–1996 Kenneth C. Brill
17 1996–1998 William J. Burns Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright
18 1998–2001 Kristie Ann Kenney Madeleine Albright
19 2001–2002 Maura Ann Harty Colin Powell
20 2002–2005 Karl William Hofmann
21 2005–2007 Harry K. Thomas Jr. Condoleezza Rice
22 2007–2009 Daniel Bennett Smith
23 2009–2012 Stephen D. Mull Hillary Clinton
24 2012–2014 John R. Bass Hillary Clinton, John Kerry
25 2014–2017 Joseph E. Macmanus John Kerry
26 2017–2020 Lisa D. Kenna Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo
27 2021–2023 Kamala S. Lakhdhir Antony Blinken
28 2023-present Dereck J. Hogan

References

  1. ^ "Dereck J. Hogan".
  2. ^ a b c "Executive Secretary". U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  3. ^ "Assistant Secretaries and Equivalent Rank". U.S. Department of State. January 20, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
  4. ^ "State Department gets new executive secretary". Foreign Policy. October 9, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2015.


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