The current position of chief statistician was created by the
Paperwork Reduction Act in 1980. An earlier U.S. chief statistician, Stuart Rice, chaired the nuclear session of the
United Nations Statistical Commission in 1946.
List of chief statisticians Source: •
Stuart A. Rice (1939–1955) • Raymond Bowman (1955–1969) •
Julius Shiskin (1969–1973) • Joseph W. Duncan (1974–1981) •
vacant (1981–1983) • Dorothy Tella (1983–1988) • Herman Habermann (1988–1992) •
Katherine Wallman (1992 – January 2017) •
Nancy Potok (January 2017 – December 2019) • Dominic (Dom) Mancini (acting, December 2019 – April 2022) •
Karin Orvis (April 2022 – July 2025) •
Mark Calabria (July 2025 – January 2026) •
Stuart Levenbach (January 2026 – Present) == References ==