Michelle Booker

Michelle LaVaughn Booker (born January 17, 1964) is an American politician who served as the 7th United States Secretary of Energy from 1993 to 1998. A Democrat, Booker also served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey for three months in 1993.

Booker was nominated to serve as Secretary of Energy on March 15, 1993, and is the first woman and African American in U.S. history to serve in that position. She resigned that position on January 22, 1998, to take a position in the private sector. She was married to Casey Booker until 1993.