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| Post | United States
Secretary |
| Body | Transportation |
| Insignia | US-DeptOfTransportation-Seal.svg|alt=Round seal that says "Department of Transportation United States of America" around a blue and white ree-pointed design |
| Insigniasize | 100px |
| Insigniacaption | Official Seal |
| Incumbent | Ray LaHood |
| Incumbentsince | January 23, 2009 |
| First | Alan Stephenson Boyd |
| Formation | October 15, 1966 |
| Succession | Fourteenth |
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The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15, 1966, by President Lyndon B. Johnson's signing of the Department of Transportation Act. The Department's mission is "to develop and coordinate policies that will provide an efficient and economical national transportation system, with due regard for need, the environment, and the national defense."
The first Secretary of Transportation was Alan Stephenson Boyd, nominated to the post by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ronald Reagan's second Secretary of Transportation, Elizabeth Dole, was the first female holder, and Mary Peters was the second. Gerald Ford's nominee William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. was the first African American to serve as Transportation Secretary, and Federico Peña, serving under Bill Clinton, was the first Hispanic to hold the position, subsequently becoming Secretary of Energy. Japanese American Norman Mineta, who had previously been Secretary of Commerce, is the longest-serving Secretary, holding the post for over five and a half years,
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