Past CDC Directors/Administrators
![Brenda Fitzgerald, MD](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/fitzgerald.jpg)
2017 – 2018:
Brenda Fitzgerald, MD
![Tom Frieden, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/frieden.jpg)
2009 – 2017:
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH
![Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/gerberding.jpg)
2002 – 2009:
Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH
![Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/koplanbw.jpg)
1998 – 2002:
Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH
![David Satcher, MD, PhD](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/satcher.jpg)
1993 – 1998:
David Satcher, MD, PhD
![William L. Roper, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/roper.jpg)
1990 – 1993:
William L. Roper, MD, MPH
![James O. Mason, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/mason.jpg)
1983 – 1989:
James O. Mason, MD, Dr.PH
![William H. Foege, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/foege.jpg)
1977 – 1983:
William H. Foege, MD, MPH
![David J. Sencer, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/sencer.jpg)
1966 – 1977:
David J. Sencer, MD, MPH
![James L. Goddard, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/goddard.jpg)
1962 – 1966:
James L. Goddard, MD, MPH
![Clarence A. Smith, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/smith.jpg)
1960 – 1962:
Clarence A. Smith, MD, MPH
![Robert J. Anderson, MD, MPH](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/anderson.jpg)
1956 – 1960:
Robert J. Anderson, MD, MPH
![Theodore J. Bauer, MD](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/bauer.jpg)
1953 – 1956:
Theodore J. Bauer, MD
![Justin M. Andrews, ScD](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/andrews.jpg)
1952 – 1953:
Justin M. Andrews, ScD
![Raymond A. Vonderlehr, MD](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/Vonderlehr.jpg)
1947 – 1951:
Raymond A. Vonderlehr, MD
![Mark D. Hollis, ScD](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/hollis.jpg)
1944 – 1946:
Mark D. Hollis, ScD
![L.L. Williams, MD](/congress115th/20190109140055im_/https://www.cdc.gov/about/images/directors/williams.jpg)
1942 – 1943:
L.L. Williams, MD
(MCWA Director)
Page last reviewed: January 31, 2018
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