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Head of US Food and Drug Administration

The United States commissioner of food and drugs is the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The commissioner is appointed by the president of the United States and must be confirmed by the Senate. The commissioner reports to the secretary of health and human services.

Due to frequent controversies involving the FDA, appointments are not always prompt and the agency is often headed by an acting commissioner. For example, Andrew von Eschenbach's appointment was held up by senators who objected to the FDA's refusal to allow emergency contraception to be sold over the counter.

The commissioner has frequently been a physician, but this is not a requirement for the post. Commissioners rarely come from a food-related background.[1]

List of commissioners[edit]

The following persons served as Commissioner of Food and Drugs Administration:[2][3]

Unnumbered, colored rows indicate acting commissioners.[3]

No. Name
(birth–death) Portrait Term of office Refs. Appointed by
(term) Start of term End of term 1 Harvey Washington Wiley January 1, 1907 March 15, 1912 [4] Theodore Roosevelt 2 Carl L. Alsberg December 16, 1912 July 15, 1921 [5] William Howard Taft 3 Walter G. Campbell July 16, 1921 June 30, 1924 [6] Warren G. Harding 4 Charles Albert Browne Jr. July 1, 1924 June 30, 1927 [7] Calvin Coolidge 5[a] Walter G. Campbell July 1, 1927 April 30, 1944 [6] Calvin Coolidge 6 Paul B. Dunbar May 6, 1944 May 31, 1951 [8] Franklin D. Roosevelt 7 Charles W. Crawford June 1, 1951 July 31, 1954 Harry S. Truman 8 George P. Larrick August 12, 1954 December 27, 1965 Dwight D. Eisenhower 9 James L. Goddard January 17, 1966 July 1, 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson 10 Herbert L. Ley Jr. July 1, 1968 December 12, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson 11 Charles C. Edwards December 13, 1969 March 15, 1973 Richard Nixon 12 Alexander M. Schmidt July 20, 1973 November 30, 1976 Richard Nixon 13 Donald Kennedy April 4, 1977 June 30, 1979 Jimmy Carter 14 Jere E. Goyan October 21, 1979 January 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter 15 Arthur H. Hayes Jr. April 13, 1981 September 11, 1983 Ronald Reagan 16 Frank E. Young July 15, 1984 December 17, 1989 Ronald Reagan 17 David A. Kessler November 8, 1990 February 28, 1997 [9] George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton

18 Jane E. Henney January 17, 1999 January 19, 2001 [10] Bill Clinton 19 Mark McClellan November 14, 2002 March 26, 2004 [11] George W. Bush 20 Lester Crawford July 18, 2005 September 23, 2005 [12] George W. Bush 21 Andrew von Eschenbach December 13, 2006 January 20, 2009 [13] George W. Bush – Frank M. Torti January 20, 2009 March 29, 2009 [14] – Joshua M. Sharfstein March 30, 2009 May 21, 2009 [15] 22 Margaret Hamburg May 22, 2009 April 1, 2015 [16] Barack Obama – Stephen Ostroff April 1, 2015 February 22, 2016 [17][18] Barack Obama 23 Robert Califf February 22, 2016 January 20, 2017 [19] Barack Obama – Stephen Ostroff January 20, 2017 May 11, 2017 [17][18] Donald Trump 24 Scott Gottlieb May 11, 2017 April 5, 2019 [20] Donald Trump – Norman Sharpless April 5, 2019 November 1, 2019 [21] Donald Trump – Admiral
Brett Giroir November 6, 2019 December 17, 2019 [22][23] Donald Trump 25 Stephen Hahn December 17, 2019 January 20, 2021 [24] Donald Trump – Janet Woodcock January 20, 2021 February 17, 2022 [25][26] Joe Biden 26[b] Robert Califf February 17, 2022 January 20, 2025 [19][27] Joe Biden – Sara Brenner January 24, 2025 April 1, 2025 [28][29] Donald Trump 27 Marty Makary April 1, 2025 Incumbent [30][31] Donald Trump

Table notes:

  1. ^ Campbell had previously served as Commissioner
  2. ^ Califf had previously served as Commissioner
  1. ^ "How the FDA's food division fails to regulate health and safety hazards". politico.com. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  2. ^ "Commissioners". FDA. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Acting Commissioners". FDA. Archived from the original on May 10, 2022.
  4. ^ "Harvey Washington Wiley". FDA.
  5. ^ "Carl L. Alsberg". FDA.
  6. ^ a b "Walter G. Campbell". FDA.
  7. ^ "Charles A. Browne". FDA. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020.
  8. ^ "Paul B. Dunbar". FDA. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020.
  9. ^ "David A. Kessler". FDA.
  10. ^ "Jane E. Henney". FDA.
  11. ^ "Mark B. McClellan". FDA.[dead link]
  12. ^ "Lester M. Crawford". FDA. Archived from the original on September 20, 2020.
  13. ^ "Andrew C. von Eschenbach MD". FDA.
  14. ^ "Frank M. Torti, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P." FDA. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021.
  15. ^ McCurdy, Debra A. (April 3, 2009). "Sharfstein Named Acting FDA Commissioner". Health Industry Washington Watch.
  16. ^ "Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D." FDA.
  17. ^ a b "Meet Stephen Ostroff, Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine". U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 9 February 2019. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  18. ^ a b "Meet Stephen Ostroff, M.D., Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine". FDA.
  19. ^ a b "Robert M. Califf M.D., MACC". FDA. Archived from the original on February 18, 2022.
  20. ^ "Scott Gottlieb M.D." FDA.
  21. ^ "Norman E. "Ned" Sharpless MD". FDA. Archived from the original on September 12, 2019.
  22. ^ McGinley, Laurie (2019-11-01). "Trump announces plan to nominate Texas cancer doctor to run FDA". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  23. ^ "ADM Brett P. Giroir MD". FDA.
  24. ^ "Stephen Hahn". U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  25. ^ Kunzmann, Kevin (January 20, 2021). "Janet Woodcock, MD, Appointed as Acting FDA Commissioner". HCPLive. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  26. ^ "Janet Woodcock M.D." FDA. Archived from the original on September 12, 2019.
  27. ^ Eglovitch, Joanne S. (November 12, 2024). "Regulatory Focus — Califf 'disappointed' about election, warns of changes at FDA". Friends of Cancer Research.
  28. ^ "Dr. Sara Brenner Appointed FDA Acting Commissioner as Trump Nominee Awaits Senate Confirmation". Food Safety Magazine. January 27, 2025.
  29. ^ "Sara Brenner M.D., M.P.H." FDA. Archived from the original on January 27, 2025.
  30. ^ "Martin A Makary M.D., M.P.H." FDA.
  31. ^ "Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H., Sworn in as FDA Commissioner". FDA. April 1, 2025.

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