Elaine Chao

Elaine Chao is an American politician and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, known for being the first Asian American woman to serve in a President's Cabinet.

"Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there."

Elaine Chao