This is a list of notable individual politicians and political organizations who publicly indicated support for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election.
Public officials serving below the state level and all other individuals and entities are listed only if they have a separate stand-alone article. Those who indicated their support after Hillary Clinton's presumptive nomination on June 11 are denoted with an asterisk.
| Name | Position | Party | In office | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Carter | 39th President | Democratic | 1977–81 | [1] |
| Bill Clinton | 42nd President | 1993–2001 | ||
| Barack Obama | 44th President | 2009–17 | [2] | |
| Walter Mondale | 42nd Vice President | 1977–81 | ||
| Al Gore | 45th Vice President | 1993–2001 | [3] | |
| Joe Biden | 47th Vice President | 2009–17 |
| Name | Position | Party | In office | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madeleine Albright | 64th Secretary of State | Democratic | 1997–2001 | [4] | |
| Colin Powell | 65th Secretary of State | Republican | 2001–05 | ||
| John Kerry | 68th Secretary of State | Democratic | 2013–17 | [5] | |
| William Cohen | 20th Secretary of Defense | Republican | 1997–2001 | [6] | |
| Leon Panetta | 23rd Secretary of Defense | Democratic | 2011–13 | [7] | |
| Cecil Andrus | 42nd Secretary of the Interior | Democratic | 1977–81 | [8] | |
| Ken Salazar | 50th Secretary of the Interior | Democratic | 2009–13 | [9] | |
| Mack McLarty | 17th White House Chief of Staff | Democratic | 1993–94 | ||
| Erskine Bowles | 19th White House Chief of Staff | Democratic | 1997–98 | [10] | |
| John Podesta | 20th White House Chief of Staff | Democratic | 1998–2001 | [11] | |
| William M. Daley | 25th White House Chief of Staff | Democratic | 2011–12 | [12] | |
| Henry Cisneros | 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | Democratic | 1993–97 | [13] | |
| Julian Castro | 16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | Democratic | 2014–2017 | [14] | |
| Michael Chertoff | 2nd Secretary of Homeland Security | Republican | 2005–09 | ||
| Bill Richardson | 9th Secretary of Energy | Democratic | 1998–2001 | [15] | |
| Steven Chu | 12th Secretary of Energy | Democratic | 2009–13 | [16] | |
| Austan Goolsbee | 26th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | Democratic | 2010–11 | ||
| Carlos Gutierrez | 35th Secretary of Commerce | Republican | 2005–09 | [17] | |
| Gary Locke | 36th Secretary of Commerce | Democratic | 2009–11 | [18] | |
| Robert Reich | 22nd Secretary of Labor | Democratic | 1993–97 | [19] | |
| Alexis Herman | 23rd Secretary of Labor | Democratic | 1997–2001 | [20] | |
| Hilda Solis | 25th Secretary of Labor | Democratic | 2009–2013 | [21] | |
| Carla Hills | 10th Trade Representative | Republican | 1989–93 | ||
| Ron Kirk | 16th Trade Representative | Democratic | 2009–2013 | [22] | |
| Eric Holder | 86th Attorney General | Democratic | 2009–2015 | ||
| Karen Mills | 23rd Administrator of the Small Business Administration | Democratic | 2009-13 | [23] | |
| Rodney E. Slater | 13th Secretary of Transportation | Democratic | 1997–2001 | ||
| Norman Mineta | 14th Secretary of Transportation | Democratic | 2001–2006 | ||
| Mary E. Peters | 15th Secretary of Transportation | Republican | 2006–2009 | [24] | |
| Henry Paulson | 74th Secretary of the Treasury | Republican | 2006–09 | ||
| Andrew Young | 14th Ambassador to the United Nations | Democratic | 1977–79 | [25] | |
| Thomas R. Pickering | 18th Ambassador to the United Nations | Democratic | 1989–92 | ||
| William Ruckelshaus | 1st and 5th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | Republican | 1970–73, 1983–85 | ||
| William K. Reilly | 7th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | Republican | 1989–93 | ||
| Carol Browner | 8th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | Democratic | 1993–2001 | [26] | |
| Christine Todd Whitman | 9th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | Republican | 2001–03 | ||
| Lisa P. Jackson | 12th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | Democratic | 2009–13 | [27] | |
| Richard Riley | 6th Secretary of Education | Democratic | 1993–2001 | ||
| Louis Wade Sullivan | 17th Secretary of Health and Human Services | Republican | 1989–93 | ||
| Donna Shalala | 18th Secretary of Health and Human Services | Democratic | 1993–2001 | [28] | |
| Kathleen Sebelius | 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services | Democratic | 2009–14 | [29] | |
| Laura Tyson | 16th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | Democratic | 1993–95 | ||
| Joseph Stiglitz | 17th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | Democratic | 1995–97 | [30] | |
| James Lee Witt | Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency | Democratic | 1993–2001 |
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Source: [121]
See also: List of Democratic Party superdelegates, 2016.
Note: Public officials belonging to the Republican Party are listed in the first section of this article
Federal, state, and municipal Democratic Party chapters can be assumed to support their party's nominee.