Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Office
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Nomination
- PN11-8, received January 20, 2025: “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of California, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.”
- Senate vote
- 52 to 48, Senate roll call 52
- Confirmed
- Our copy of the nomination record
- Saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 33410ad5ce5ea9c7
- Department’s own page
- Department of Health and Human Services’s leadership page did not answer our reader. Not checked yet.
Sources: The White House, The Cabinet (our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 185671ff1fc127e8) and Congress’s nominations record.
How the White House describes Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Quoted from the White House’s Cabinet page.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s career of public service began in 1985 as an attorney for the environmental nonprofit RiverKeeper. He eventually became one of the most influential environmentalists in the United States, receiving TIME Magazine’s “Hero of the Planet” and the Sartisky Peace Award.”
“Bobby Kennedy Jr. comes from an illustrious political family. The son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, Bobby Jr. was a lifelong Democrat but became increasingly estranged from the party in the 2010s as it drifted away from its traditional values. He made his final break on October 9, 2023, when he announced his candidacy as an independent for President of the United States.”
“Bobby has spent nearly 40 years fighting corrupt corporations and government agencies. During his tenure at RiverKeeper, he successfully sued dozens of municipalities to force compliance with the Clean Water Act. He won cases against corporate giants too, including a suit against General Electric for toxic runoff from its corporate jet hangar and a court order against ExxonMobil mandating they clean up tens of millions of gallons of spilled oil in Brooklyn, NY.”
“Building on the success of the local Riverkeeper model, Bobby co-founded the WaterKeeper Alliance and served as its President for 21 years. Under his direction, it became the world’s largest nonprofit devoted to clean water and now protects 2.7 million miles of waterways with over a million volunteers in the United States and 46 other countries.”
Financial disclosure reports
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