Juanita M. Kreps

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Juanita Morris Kreps (born January 11, 1921) was U.S. Secretary of Commerce from January 23, 1977 until October 31, 1979 under President Jimmy Carter.

Born in Lynch, Kentucky, she graduated from Berea College in 1942 and earned her Master's and Ph.D. in economics at Duke University in 1944 and 1948, respectively. A specialist in labor demographics, Dr. Kreps has taught at Denison University, Hofstra College, Queens College, and Duke. She was the first woman Commerce Secretary.

With husband Clifton H. Kreps, Jr., the Kreps family has 3 children.

[edit] Professional Involvements

• Member of the Board of AT&T
• Member of the Board of Chrysler
• Member of the Board of Citicorp
• Member of the Board of GTE
• Member of the Board of J.C. Penney
• Member of the Board of Kodak
• Member of the Board of the New York Stock Exchange 1972-1977
• Member of the Board of R.J. Reynolds 1975-77
• Member of the Board of TIAA-CREF
• Member of the Board of United Airlines
• Aspen Institute
• Council on Foreign Relations Board of Directors 1983-89
• Women's Economic Round Table Honorary Committee
• Member of Phi Beta Kappa Society

[edit] Books

• Principles of Economics (1962, with Charles E. Ferguson)
• Automation and Employment (1964)
• Taxation, Spending, and the National Debt (1964)
• Lifetime Allocation of Work and Income: Essays in the Economics of Aging (1971)
• Sex in the Marketplace: American Women at Work (1971)
• Contemporary Labor Economics: Issues, Analysis, and Policies (1974)
• Sex, Age, and Work: the Changing Composition of the Labor Force (1975)
• Women and the American Economy: A Look to the 1980s (1976)

[edit] Quote

• "I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man."

Preceded by: Elliot Richardson

United States Secretary of Commerce January 23, 1977 – October 31, 1979

Succeeded by: Philip Morris Klutznick

United States Secretaries of Commerce

Secretaries of Commerce & Labor (1903–1913): Cortelyou | Metcalf | Straus | Nagel Secretaries of Commerce (1913—): Redfield | Alexander | Hoover | Whiting | Lamont | Chapin | Roper | Hopkins | Jones | Wallace | Harriman | Sawyer | Weeks | Strauss | Mueller | Hodges | Connor | Trowbridge | Smith | Stans | Peterson | Dent | Morton | Richardson | Kreps | Klutznick | Baldrige | Verity | Mosbacher | Franklin | Brown | Kantor | Daley | Mineta | Evans | Gutierrez