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Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States federal government's Environmental Protection Agency, and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The EPA Administrator is customarily accorded cabinet-rank by Presidents of the United States and sits with the President, Vice President, and the 15 Cabinet Secretaries, in keeping with the important duties of the Administrator. Since the late 1980s there has been a movement to make the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a Cabinet Secretary, thus making the EPA a sixteenth cabinet department dealing with environmental affairs. The Administrator is nominated by the President, and must be confirmed by a vote of the Senate.
The office of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 in legislation that created the Environmental Protection Agency.
Administrators of the EPA
| Name |
Term of Office |
President(s) served under |
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| William D. Ruckelshaus |
December 4, 1970 – April 30, 1973 |
Richard Nixon |
| Robert Fri (Acting) |
April 30, 1973 – September 12, 1973 |
Richard Nixon |
| Russell E. Train |
September 12, 1973 – January 20, 1977 |
Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford |
| John Quarles, Jr. (Acting) |
January 21, 1977 – March 6, 1977 |
Jimmy Carter |
| Douglas M. Costle |
March 7, 1977 – January 20, 1981 |
Jimmy Carter |
| Steve Jellinek (Acting) |
January 21, 1981 – January 25, 1981 |
Ronald Reagan |
| Walter Barber, Jr. (Acting) |
January 25, 1981 – May 19, 1981
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Ronald Reagan |
| Anne M. Burford (née Gorsuch) |
May 20, 1981 – March 9, 1983 |
Ronald Reagan |
| Lee Verstandig (Acting) |
March 9, 1983 – May 17, 1983 |
Ronald Reagan |
| William D. Ruckelshaus |
May 18, 1983 – January 4, 1985 |
Ronald Reagan |
| Lee M. Thomas (Acting) |
January 4, 1985 – February 7, 1985 |
Ronald Reagan |
| Lee M. Thomas |
February 8, 1985 – January 20, 1989 |
Ronald Reagan |
| John Moore (Acting) |
January 21, 1989 – February 5, 1989 |
George H.W. Bush |
| William K. Reilly |
February 6, 1989 – January 20, 1993 |
George H.W. Bush |
| Carol M. Browner |
January 22, 1993 – January 19, 2001 |
Bill Clinton |
| W. Michael McCabe (Acting) |
January 20, 2001 – January 30, 2001 |
George W. Bush |
| Christine Todd Whitman |
January 31, 2001 – June 27, 2003 |
George W. Bush
| | Linda J. Fisher (Acting) |
June 28, 2003 – July 11, 2003 |
George W. Bush
| | Marianne L. Horinko (Acting) |
July 12, 2003 – November 5, 2003 |
George W. Bush |
| Michael O. Leavitt |
November 6, 2003 – January 26, 2005 |
George W. Bush |
| Stephen L. Johnson (Acting) |
January 26, 2005 – present |
George W. Bush |
Note that Acting Administrators usually assume the office in the interim period between the resignation of a previous Administrator and the confirmation of his or her successor, or during the transition period between two Presidential Administrations, before the successor has been nominated and confirmed. Acting Administrators come from within the EPA, and usually hold an office that is subject to Senate confirmation before becoming the Acting Administrator. They are not subject to Senate confirmation to serve as the Acting Administrator, though to continue to serve as a full-fledged Administrator (as in the case of Lee M. Thomas ), they must be confirmed by the Senate.
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