List of White House Chiefs of Staff

Below is a list of the White House Chiefs of Staff of the United States. The White House Chief of Staff is the head of the Executive Office of the President and the White House Office, and is generally responsible for overseeing the actions of the White House staff, managing the President's schedule, and deciding who is allowed to meet with the President.

The current White House Chief of Staff is William M. Daley, who is resigning at the end of the month. He will be replaced by Chief of Staff-designateJacob "Jack" J. Lew.

List of Chiefs of Staff

#	Picture	Chief	Years	President
1		John R. Steelman	1946–1952	Harry S. Truman
2		Sherman Adams	1953–1958	Dwight D. Eisenhower
3		Wilton Persons	1958–1961
u/o		Kenneth O'Donnell	1961–1963	John F. Kennedy
u/o		W. Marvin Watson	1963–1968	Lyndon Johnson
u/o		Jim Jones	1968
4		H. R. Haldeman	1969–1973	Richard Nixon
5		Alexander Haig	1973–1974
6		Donald Rumsfeld	1974–1975	Gerald Ford
7		Dick Cheney	1975–1977
-		vacant	1977–1979	Jimmy Carter
8		Hamilton Jordan	1979–1980
9		Jack Watson	1980–1981
10		James Baker	1981–1985	Ronald Reagan
11		Donald Regan	1985–1987
12		Howard Baker	1987–1988
13		Kenneth Duberstein	1988–1989
14		John H. Sununu	1989–1991	George H. W. Bush
15		Samuel K. Skinner	1991–1992
16		James Baker	1992–1993
17		Mack McLarty	1993–1994	Bill Clinton
18		Leon Panetta	1994–1997
19		Erskine Bowles	1997–1998
20		John Podesta	1998–2001
21		Andrew Card	2001–2006	George W. Bush
22		Joshua Bolten	2006–2009
23		Rahm Emanuel	2009–2010	Barack Obama
Acting		Pete Rouse	2010–2011
24		William M. Daley	2011–2012
25		Jacob Lew	2012–Present