Republican Christine Todd Whitman is the secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Born in New York City on September 26, 1946, Whitman now resides in Tewksbury Township, NJ. She earned her B.A. from Wheaton College. She is married to John, and they have two children.

Whitman had political career as a staff assistant to Donald Rumsfeld in President Richard Nixon's Office of Economic Opportunity. From 1983 to 1987, she worked as a Somerset County freeholder and then as the president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities until 1990, when she ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.

Whitman was first elected as governor of New Jersey in 1993. She was reelected in 1997 and served until she became Secretary of the EPA in 2001.