No female Secretary of Labor was black and no black female cabinet member was Secretary of Labor.
Woodrow Wilson was the President; William Wilson was the first Secretary of Labor. The previous president, Taft, had a Secretary of Labor and Commerce.
Hilda L. Solis
Robert Reich
Sean Davidson
Jane Williams
Perkins
Franes Perkins
Mary McLeod Bethune
Frances Perkins, who was Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, was the first woman to serve in any president's cabinet.
Frances Perkins
In 2005
Yes - her name was Frances Perklins.
Frances Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
The first woman on the US Cabinet was Frances Perkins, who served as US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
Francis Perkins- she became the Secretary of labor in 1933 under FDR
Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor for George W. Bush was of Chinese descent and is the first of Asian ancestry.
Elizabeth H. "Liz" Shuler.She is an American labor activist and, since September 16, 2009, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. She is the first woman and (as of 2009) the youngest person to hold the position of Secretary-Treasurer. She is the highest-ranking woman in the labor federation's history. Her election also marks the first time that two of the three officer positions in the AFL-CIO were held by women.
Frances Coralie Perkins was the first woman to be in the U.S. Cabinet. She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945.