Reclamation History

Commissioners of Reclamation

1894-1907	Charles D. Walcott	Director, U.S.G.S.
1902-1907	Frederick H. Newell	Chief Engineer
1907-1914	Frederick H. Newell	Director
1914-1923	Arthur Powell Davis	Director
1923-1924	David W. Davis	Commissioner
1924-1936	Elwood Mead	Commissioner
1930-1936	Mae A. Schnurr	Acting*
1936-1943	John C. Page	Commissioner
1943-1945	Harry W. Bashore	Commissioner
1945-1953	Michael W. Straus	Commissioner
1953	Goodrich W. Lineweaver	Acting
1953-1959	Wilbur A. Dexheimer	Commissioner
1959-1969	Floyd E. Dominy	Commissioner
1969-1973	Ellis L. Armstrong	Commissioner
1973-1977	Gilbert G. Stamm	Commissioner
1977	Donald D. Anderson	Acting
1977-1981	R. Keith Higginson	Commissioner
1981	Clifford I. Barrett	Acting
1981-1984	Robert N. Broadbent	Commissioner
December 1984-August 1985	Robert A. Olson	Acting
1985	Clifford I. Barrett	Acting
December 1985-1989	C. Dale Duvall	Commissioner
1989	Joe D. Hall	Acting
1989-1993	Dennis B. Underwood	Commissioner
1993	Lawrence F. Hancock	Acting
May 1993-September 1995	Daniel Beard	Commissioner
September to December 1995	Stephen P. Magnussen	Acting
December 1995-January 2001	Eluid L. Martinez	Commissioner
January to July 2001	J. William McDonald	Acting
July 2001-April 2006	John W. Keys III	Commissioner
April 2006-October 2006	William Rinne	Acting
October 2006-January 2009	Robert (Bob) W. Johnson	Commissioner
January 2009-May 2009	J. William McDonald	Acting
June 2009 - February 2014	Michael L. Connor	Commissioner
March 2014 - October 2014	Lowell Pimley	Acting
December 2014 - 2016	Estevan López	Commissioner
November 2017 - January 2021	Brenda Burman	Commissioner
November 2021 - Present	M. Camille Calimlim Touton	Commissioner

*Mae Schnurr served as Acting Commissioner several times during the period from 1930 through 1936