Obama Administration Cabinet Secretaries

Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmations_of_Barack_Obama's_Cabinet)

Only confirmed nominees are included.

Some service year numbers have been rounded up.

Department Secretaries in parentheses -e.g. "(Defense)"- served their terms after the Secretaries above them.

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Department	Years Served	Previous Job(s)	Answer
Agriculture	8	Iowa Governor	Tom Vilsack
Commerce	2	Washington Governor	Gary Locke
(Commerce)	1.5	Edison International President; Boeing Director	John Bryson
(Commerce)	4	Billionaire Investor	Penny Pritzker
Defense	2	holdover Defense Secretary	Robert Gates
(Defense)	1.5	California Congressman; CIA Director	Leon Panetta
(Defense)	2	Nebraska Senator	Chuck Hagel
(Defense)	2	Assistant Secretary of Defense; Deputy Secretary of Defense	Ash Carter
Education	7	Chicago Public Schools CEO	Arne Duncan
(Education)	1	New York State Education Commissioner	John King Jr.
Energy	4	Physics Nobel Laureate; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director	Steven Chu
(Energy)	4	Office of Science & Technology Associate Director; Under Secretary of Energy	Ernest Moniz
Health & Human Services	5.5	Kansas Governor	Kathleen Sebelius
(Health & Human Services)	2.5	Deputy White House Chief of Staff; Office of Management & Budget Director	Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Homeland Security	4.5	Arizona Governor	Janet Napolitano
(Homeland Security)	3	Air Force General Counsel; Defense Department General Counsel	Jeh Johnson
Housing & Urban Development	5.5	New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development	Shaun Donovan
(Housing & Urban Development)	2.5	San Antonio Mayor	Julian Castro
Interior	4	Colorado Senator	Ken Salazar
(Interior)	4	CEO of REI	Sally Jewell
Justice	6	D.C. District Court Judge; U.S. Attorney, D.C.	Eric Holder
(Justice)	2	Board Member, New York Federal Reserve Bank; U.S. Attorney, New York Eastern District	Loretta Lynch
Labor	4	California Congresswoman	Hilda Solis
(Labor)	4	Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights	Tom Perez
State	4	New York Senator	Hillary Clinton
(State)	4	Massachusetts Senator	John Kerry
Transportation	4	Illinois Congressman	Ray LaHood
(Transportation)	4	Charlotte Mayor	Anthony Fox
Treasury	4	New York Federal Reserve Bank President	Timothy Geithner
(Treasury)	4	Office of Management & Budget Director; White House Chief of Staff	Jack Lew
Veterans Affairs	5.5	Army Chief of Staff	Eric Shinseki
(Veterans Affairs)	2.5	Proctor & Gamble Chair, President, and CEO	Robert McDonald