Juanita M. Kreps

About Juanita M. Kreps

Birth Day: January 11, 1921
Birth Place: Kentucky
Birth Sign: Capricorn

Juanita M. Kreps Net Worth

Juanita M. Kreps net worth and salary: Juanita M. Kreps is a Politician who has a net worth of $17 Million. Juanita M. Kreps was born in in January 11, 1921. Rose from an impoverished childhood to become Jimmy Carter's Commerce secretary, the first woman to hold the influential post. She was only the fourth woman to hold any Cabinet position at all.
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💰Juanita M. Kreps Net worth: $17 Million (Updated at 15 March 2019)

About

Rose from an impoverished childhood to become Jimmy Carter's Commerce secretary, the first woman to hold the influential post. She was only the fourth woman to hold any Cabinet position at all.

Before Fame

She was a professor at Duke University, eventually rising to the post of Vice President of the school.

Trivia

She displayed the first sign of her trademark bluntness and wit in response to a question about a lack of qualified women for her cabinet post - she responded saying there are plenty of qualified women, they just had to be found.

Family Life

She grew up in Lynch, Kentucky, a coal-mining community in the heart of Appalachia, where her father worked as a coal-mine operator.

Associated With

Before her, only three other women served as cabinet secretaries, the first one during the Franklin Roosevelt administration.