Occupational Safety & Health Administration
Former Assistant Secretaries (1971 - 2019)

Loren E. Sweatt (Acting)
August 2017 - March 2019

Dorothy Dougherty (Acting)
January 2017 - July 2017

Dr. David Michaels
December 2009 - January 2017

Jordan Barab (Acting)
April 2009 - December 2009

Donald Shalhoub (Acting)
January 2009 - April 2009

Thomas M. Stohler (Acting)
November 2008 - January 2009

Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.
April 2006 - November 2008

Jonathan L. Snare (Acting)
January 2005 - April 2006

John L. Henshaw
August 2001 - December 2004

R. Davis Layne (Acting)
January 2001 - August 2001

Charles N. Jeffress
November 1997 - January 2001

Gregory R. Watchman (Acting)
January 1997 - November 1997

Joseph A. Dear
November 1993 - January 1997

David Zeigler (Acting)
January 1993 - November 1993

Dorothy L. Strunk (Acting)
January 1992 - January 1993

Gerard F. Scannell
October 1989 - January 1992

Alan C. McMillan (Acting)
April 1989 - October 1989

John A. Pendergrass
May 1986 - March 1989

Patrick Tyson (Acting)
July 1985 - May 1986

Robert A. Rowland
(Recess appointment; never confirmed)
July 1984 - July 1985

Patrick Tyson (Acting)
April 1984 - July 1984

Thorne G. Auchter
March 1981 - April 1984

David Zeigler (Acting)
January 1981 - March 1981

Eula Bingham
April 1977 - January 1981

Bert Concklin (Acting)
January 1977 - April 1977

Morton Corn
December 1975 - January 1977

Bert Concklin & Marshall Miller (Acting)
July 1975 - December 1975

John Stender
April 1973 - July 1975

M. Chain Robbins (Acting)
January 1973 - April 1973

George Guenther
April 1971 - January 1973