United States Deputy Secretary of Energy

The deputy secretary of energy is a high-ranking position within the United States Department of Energy. The Deputy Secretary is the second-highest-ranking official of the Department and assists the secretary of energy in the supervision and direction of the Department. The Deputy Secretary succeeds the Secretary in their absence, sickness, or unavailability.

Deputy Secretary of Energy
Seal of the U. S. Department of Energy
Incumbent David Turk since March 25, 2021
United States Department of Energy
Member of	U. S. Department of Energy
Reports to	U. S. Secretary of Energy
Seat	Washington, D.C., United States
Appointer	The President
Website	www.energy.gov

The Deputy Secretary is appointed by the President with the consent of the United States Senate to serve at the request of the President.

The current Deputy Secretary is David Turk who was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 98–2 on March 24, 2021.

History

The position of deputy secretary of energy was formed on October 1, 1977, with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act.^[1]

Deputy secretaries of energy

No.	Image	Name	Took office	Left office
1		John F. O'Leary[2]	October 21, 1977	September 30, 1979
2		John C. Sawhill	October 4, 1979	October 8, 1980
3		Lynn Coleman	December 23, 1980	January 20, 1981
4		W. Kenneth Davis	May 14, 1981	January 13, 1983
5		Danny J. Boggs	November 3, 1983	March 25, 1986
6		William Flynn Martin	June 6, 1986	June 6, 1988
7		Joseph F. Salgado	May 21, 1988	January 20, 1989
8		W. Henson Moore	April 12, 1989	January 31, 1992
9		Linda Stuntz	January 31, 1992	January 22, 1993
10		William H. White	June 26, 1993	January 20, 1995
11		Charles B. Curtis	August 1995	May 1997
12		Betsy Moler	1997	2001
13		Frank Blake	June 1, 2001	April 2002
14		Kyle E. McSlarrow	November 27, 2002	February 2005
15		Clay Sell	March 17, 2005	February 29, 2008
–		Jeffrey Kupfer Acting	March 1, 2008	January 20, 2009
17		Daniel Poneman	May 18, 2009	October 5, 2014
18		Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall	October 10, 2014	January 20, 2017
19		Dan Brouillette	August 8, 2017	December 4, 2019
20		Mark Menezes	December 4, 2019 (Acting)	August 4, 2020 (Acting)
			August 4, 2020	January 20, 2021
21		David Turk	March 25, 2021	Present

References

1. "Origins". U.S. Department of Energy. Archived from the original on 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
2. Terrence R. Fehner; Jack M. Hall, Department of Energy 1997-1994, a summary history (PDF)