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Elaine Lan Chao (born March 26, 1953) is an American businesswoman and former government official who served as United States secretary of labor in the administration of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 and as United States Secretary of Transportation in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021.
Of Chinese American heritage, Chao was born in Syosset, New York, and grew up in Harrison, New York. [2] Her father was James S. C. Chao, who founded Foremost Group in 1964. [3] Her mother was Ruth Mulan Chu Chao. [4] She was the youngest of six sisters, one of whom is Elaine Chao, former US Secretary of Transportation. [5]
Chao's oldest daughter is Elaine Chao, who is the first woman of Asian Pacific American descent appointed to a US President's Cabinet: she served as Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009, and as Secretary of Transportation from 2017 to 2021. Chao's daughter Angela succeeded him as CEO of Foremost Group in 2018. [25]
February 13, 2024 at 5:37 PM. Frazer Harrison. Angela Chao, the CEO of the dry bulk shipping company Foremost Group and the sister of former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, has died in a ...
February 14, 2024 at 2:31 PM. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images. Angela Chao, CEO of the shipping company the Foremost Group and sister of former US cabinet secretary Elaine Chao, was killed in a car ...
Ms Chao resigned days before the end of Mr Trump’s term in office in the wake of the attack on the US Capitol mounted by his supporters on 6 January, 2021.
Foremost Group was founded in 1964 by businessman James Si-Cheng Chao and his wife Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, who each immigrated to the United States from China by way of Taiwan. [5] [6] Its chair and CEO from 2018 to 2024 was Angela Chao, the sixth daughter of the company's founders and the third of their children born in the United States. [7] [8] [3]
Chao, who lived in Austin, was the youngest daughter of Foremost Group's founder and honorary chairman, Dr. James S.C. Chao, the sister of Elaine Chao, former Secretary of Transportation, and the ...