On November 9, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Michelle Kwan as a public diplomacy ambassador.

Dombeck held that position until 1997 when Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman named him the 14th Chief of the U.S. Forest Service.

In November 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named her a Special Envoy for Global AIDS Awareness.

The Secretary of the Navy finally named her on 19 January 1981.

On 10 August 2010, Puerto Rico's Secretary of State, Kenneth D. McClintock, named Santiago "Puerto Rico's foremost military historian."

B1 Pataki Picks Secretary of State Gov. George E. Pataki named Randy A. Daniels secretary of state.

At Shildon, the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw named 44767 after famous railway engineer George Stephenson.

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England named the San Diego on 30 April 2004:

The Secretary of Energy named Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, Lab director from 1986-1997 and a Los Alamos senior fellow until 2000, co-recipient of the 2009 Enrico Fermi Award.

In 1953, Secretary of the Navy Robert Bernard Anderson named the chair in honor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, recognizing King's great personal interest in maritime history.