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Executive Secretary

Creation of this Position

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Lucius D. Battle
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Mar 16, 1961]
Termination of Appointment: May 2, 1962

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: William H. Brubeck
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: [May 14, 1962]
Termination of Appointment: Jul 20, 1963

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Benjamin H. Read
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Non-career appointee
Appointment: [Aug 4, 1963]
Termination of Appointment: Feb 14, 1969

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Aug 10, 1969]
Termination of Appointment: Sep 26, 1973

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Thomas R. Pickering
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Jul 30, 1973]
Termination of Appointment: Jan 31, 1974

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: George S. Springsteen, Jr.
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Non-career appointee
Appointment: [Jan 31, 1974]
Termination of Appointment: Jul 14, 1976

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: C. Arthur Borg
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Jul 12, 1976]
Termination of Appointment: Apr 15, 1977

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Peter Tarnoff
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Apr 4, 1977]
Termination of Appointment: Feb 8, 1981

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: L. Paul Bremer, III
State of Residency: Connecticut
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Feb 2, 1981]
Termination of Appointment: Mar 27, 1983

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: M. Charles Hill
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Mar 28, 1983]
Termination of Appointment: Jan 1, 1985

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Nicholas Platt
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Jan 7, 1985]
Termination of Appointment: Feb 13, 1987

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Melvyn Levitsky
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Feb 13, 1987]
Termination of Appointment: Mar 25, 1989

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: J. Stapleton Roy
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Mar 26, 1989]
Termination of Appointment: Jun 17, 1995

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: W. Robert Pearson
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [May 28, 1991]
Termination of Appointment: Jan 22, 1993

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Marc I. Grossman
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Jan 22, 1993]
Termination of Appointment: Jul 29, 1994

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: Kenneth C. Brill
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Sep 1, 1994]
Termination of Appoiintment: Dec 22, 1995

Title: Executive Secretary
Name: William J. Burns
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: [Jan 16, 1996]
Termination of Appointment:

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Creation of Position: In 1961, the Department of State conferred on the Director of the Executive Secretariat the title of Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary, along with rank equivalent to an Assistant Secretary of State. Since then, the Secretary of State has designated all incumbents. The Department established the Executive Secretariat in Mar 1947 to regulate the flow of information within the highest levels of the Department. Its functions have included such various assignments as Protocol (prior to 1955), management of the Department's Operation Center (since 1962) and preparation of briefing papers about the Department during the transitions between Presidential administrations.

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