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A Career of Firsts, and of Transformations. The story of Elaine Chao ’s professional life is full of historic firsts, including being the first woman of Asian American & Pacific Islander heritage to serve in a President’s cabinet in our nation’s history.
Elaine Lan Chao-McConnell (趙小蘭; born March 26, 1953) is an American politician. She was the 18th United States Secretary of Transportation from January 31, 2017 to January 11, 2021 during the Donald Trump administration.
Jun 2, 2019 · Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary, oversees the American maritime industry. Her family’s shipping company, Foremost Group, has deep ties to the Chinese elite. Tom Brenner for...
Well, before we delve right into the administration and your first connections with President Bush, let me first say that this is the Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor for President George W. Bush, oral history, for that Bush Presidency oral history.
Jul 18, 2012 · Elaine Chao made history when she became the first Asian American woman appointed to a U.S. president's cabinet. She served as Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, and before that directed...
Elaine Lan Chao is an American businesswoman and former government official who served as United States secretary of labor in the administration of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 and as United States Secretary of Transportation in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021.
US Secretary of Labor. Elaine Chao (b.1953) became the first Asian American woman to be appointed to a president’s cabinet when she served as the country’s 24th US Secretary of Labor from 2001-09. She immigrated at age 8 from Taiwan and spoke no English.
