List of U.S. executive branch czars
Updated: 11/4/2025, 4:16:50 PM Wikipedia source
In the United States, the informal term "czar" (or, less often, "tsar") is employed in media and popular usage to refer to high-level executive-branch officials who oversee a particular policy field. As of 2025, there have never been any U.S. government offices with the formal title czar. The earliest known use of the term for a U.S. government official was in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt (1933–1945), during which eleven unique positions (or twelve if one were to count "economic czar" and "economic czar of World War II" as distinct) were so described. The list of those identified as czars is based on subjective judgments, as individuals or offices may be referred to with the nickname by some publications or public figures, while not by others. A more limited (though no less subjective) definition of the term would encompass only those officials appointed without Senate confirmation.
Tables
| President | Party | In office | Number of czar titles | Number of appointees | Appointees not confirmed by Senate |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 1933–1945 | 11 | 19 | 18 |
| Harry S. Truman | 1945–1953 | 6 | 5 | ||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican | 1953–1961 | 1 | 0 | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Democratic | 1963–1969 | 3 | 1 | |
| Richard Nixon | Republican | 1969–1974 | 3 | 5 | |
| Gerald Ford | 1974–1977 | 2 | |||
| Jimmy Carter | Democratic | 1977–1981 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Ronald Reagan | Republican | 1981–1989 | 1 | ||
| George H. W. Bush | 1989–1993 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Bill Clinton | Democratic | 1993–2001 | 8 | 11 | 7 |
| George W. Bush | Republican | 2001–2009 | 33 | 49 | 28 |
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 2009–2017 | 38 | 50 | 39 |
| Donald Trump | Republican | 2017–2021; 2025–present | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Joe Biden | Democratic | 2021–2025 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| Czar title | Official title | Office holder | Tenure | Type of appointment | Appointing administration | Senate confirmed |
| AI & crypto czar | White House AI & Crypto Czar | David Sacks | 2025–present | President appointed | Donald Trump | |
| AfPak czar, Afghanistan and Pakistan czar | Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan | Richard Holbrooke | 2009–2010 | Barack Obama | ||
| AIDS czar | National AIDS Policy Coordinator, Member of White House Domestic Policy Council | Kristine Gebbie | 1993–1994 | Bill Clinton | ||
| Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy | Patricia Fleming | 1993–1997 | ||||
| Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, Presidential Envoy for AIDS Cooperation | Sandra Thurman | 1997–2000 | ||||
| Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy | Scott Evertz | 2001–2002 | George W. Bush | |||
| Joe O'Neill | 2002–2003 | |||||
| Carol Thompson | 2004–2006 | |||||
| Jeffrey Crowley | 2009–2012 | Barack Obama | ||||
| Grant Colfax | 2012–2014 | |||||
| Douglas Brooks | 2014–2016 | |||||
| anti-poverty czar, poverty czar | Director of Office of Economic Opportunity | Sargent Shriver | 1965–1969 | President nominated, Senate confirmed | Lyndon Johnson | ✓ |
| Asian Carp czar | Asian Carp Director, Council on Environmental Quality | John Goss | 2010–Unknown | Council on Environmental Quality selected | Barack Obama | |
| auto czar, car czar | Treasury Advisor, Head of the Auto Task Force | Steve Rattner | 2009 Feb–Jul | Sec. of Treasury appointed | ||
| Senior Advisor President's Automotive Task Force | Ron Bloom | 2009–2011 | President appointed | |||
| auto recovery czar, autoworker czar | Member Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers | Edward B. Montgomery | 2009–Unknown | |||
| bank bailout czar, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) czar | United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability, Senior Advisor to Secretary of the Treasury | Neel Kashkari | 2008–2009 | (New position), President nominated, Senate confirmed | George W. Bush | ✓ |
| bank bailout czar, TARP czar | United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability | Herb Allison | 2009–2013 | President nominated, Senate confirmed | Barack Obama | |
| bioethics czar | Advisor to the President, Chairman of The President's Council on Bioethics | Leon Kass | 2001–2005 | (New position), Exec order, President appointed | George W. Bush | |
| bird flu czar | Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Advisor to the President for Public Health Emergency Preparedness | Stewart Simonson | 2004–2006 | (New position), President appointed | ||
| birth control czar | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services | Eric Keroack | 2006–2007 | President appointed | ||
| border czar | attorney and Special Representative for the Southwest Border, Department of Justice | Alan Bersin | 1995–1998 | President nominated, Senate confirmed as U.S. Attorney, Appointed as Special Representative | Bill Clinton | ✓ |
| Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Special Representative for Border Affairs, Dept of Homeland Security | 2009–2011 | Sec of Homeland Security appointed | Barack Obama | |||
| Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Southern Border | Roberta S. Jacobson | 2021 Jan–Apr | President appointed | Joe Biden | ||
| Border Czar | Thomas Homan | 2019/2025–present | President appointed | Donald Trump | ||
| budget czar | Director of the Office of Management and Budget | Mitch Daniels | 2001–2003 | President nominated, Senate confirmed | George W. Bush | ✓ |
| Josh Bolten | 2003–2006 | |||||
| Rob Portman | 2006–2007 | |||||
| car czar | Chief domestic policy advisor and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council | Bruce Reed | 1993–2001 | (New position), Exec order, President appointed | Bill Clinton | |
| czar of censorship | Director, Office of Censorship | Byron Price | 1941–1945 | Exec Order, President appointed | Franklin Roosevelt | |
| cleanup czar | Special Assistant Attorney General (to investigate corruption) | Newbold Morris | 1952, fired after 63 days by Attorney General (AG) for demanding records access; AG then forced to resign by President Truman | Attorney General appointed | Harry Truman | |
| Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, Department of Energy (nuclear cleanup) | Jessie Roberson | 2001–2004 | President nominated, Senate confirmed | George W. Bush | ✓ | |
| James Rispoli | 2005–2008 | Sec. of Energy appointed, Senate confirmed | ||||
| climate czar | Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary, President's Coordinator for Climate Change, Senior negotiator at Kyoto and Beuenos Aires negotiations | Todd Stern | 1997–1999 | President appointed | Bill Clinton | |
| Special Envoy for Climate Change | Todd Stern | 2009 | Sec. of State appointed | Barack Obama | ||
| climate czar, energy czar, global warming czar | Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change | Carol Browner | 2009–2011 | (New position) | ||
| copyright czar | Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator | vacant; position approved but not filled during Bush administration | 2008–2009 | George W. Bush | ||
| Victoria Espinel | 2009–2013 | (first at position) | Barack Obama | |||
| communications czar | Counselor to the President, Special counselor to the President | Dan Bartlett | 2005–2007 | President appointed | George W. Bush | |
| compensation czar, Gulf claims czar, pay czar | Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation | Kenneth Feinberg | 2009–2011, 2014–2016? | Sec. of Treasury appointed | Barack Obama | |
| consumer czar | Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Elizabeth Warren | 2010–2011 | (New position), President appointed | ||
| COVID-19 czar | Counselor to the President of the United States | Jeff Zients | 2021–2022 | President appointed | Joe Biden | |
| White House COVID-19 response coordinator | Ashish Jha | 2022–2023 | ||||
| cruise czar | Fact-Finding Officer for the Federal Maritime Commission | Louis E. Sola | 2020–2023 | President nominated, Senate confirmed | Donald Trump | |
| cyber security czar, cyber czar | Special Advisor to the President on Cybersecurity, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) | Richard A. Clarke | 2001 Oct – 2003 Feb | (New position), President appointed | George W. Bush | |
| Director, National Cybersecurity Center | Rod Beckstrom | 2008–2009 | (New position), Presidential directive, President appointed | |||
| Director of the White House Office of Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Coordinator | Melissa Hathaway | 2009 May–Jul, Acting czar | Office created May 31, 2009. | Barack Obama | ||
| Tom Bossert | 2017–2018 | Donald Trump | ||||
| Robert Joyce | 2018 |
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- Trump has appointed Homan as the border czar for his second administration as well.
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