INDIANA STATE HEALTH COMMISSIONERS
(Per IC 16-19-4-4 all are physicians)
1881 - March 15, 1883 | Thaddeus M. Stevens |
March 15, 1883 - August 14, 1883 | Emanuel R. Hawn |
September 6, 1883 - May 1885 | Elyah S. Elder |
May 1885 - March 1896 | Charles M. Metcalf |
March 12, 1896 - 1922 | John N. Hurty |
October 1, 1922 - April 1933 | William F. King |
April 1933 - June 1933 | John H. Hare |
July 1, 1933 - October 1940 | Verne K. Harvey |
October 1940 - October 1942 | John W. Ferree (on leave US Navy - October 1942) |
October 1942 - July 1945 | Thurman B. Rice (Interim Commissioner) |
July 1, 1945 - August 1954 | L. E. Burney* |
August 1954 - 1972 | A. C. Offutt |
1973 - 1979 | William T. Paynter |
1980 - 1984 | Ronald G. Blankenbaker |
1985 | T.S. Danielson, Jr, (Interim Commissioner) |
1986 - 1989 | Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.** |
1990 | Morris Green (Interim Commissioner) |
1991 - 1996 | John C. Bailey |
1997 - 2000 | Richard D. Feldman |
2001 - 2004 | Gregory A. Wilson |
March 10, 2005 - March 18, 2010 | Judith A. Monroe*** |
March 18 - March 31, 2010 | Loren Robertson (Interim Commissioner) |
April 1, 2010 - January 11, 2013 | Gregory N. Larkin |
January 14, 2013 - October 21, 2014 | William C. VanNess, II |
October 14, 2014 - September 1, 2017 | Jerome M. Adams**** |
September 2, 2017 – October 15, 2017 | Pam Pontones, (Interim Commissioner) |
October 16, 2017 - May 31, 2023 | Kristina M. Box |
June 1, 2023 - present | Lindsay Weaver |
Sources:
A list from the Indiana State Library Clipping file—State Officers.
Compiled from the: Roster of state and local officials: State of Indiana. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana State Board of Accounts. Compiled by R.E. Sharp 3/10/2005.
*First State Health Commissioner to be appointed as US Surgeon General – 1956 to 1961
**First African-American State Health Commissioner
***First female State Health Commissioner – left IDOH to be Deputy Director of CDC and Director of the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
****Appointed as the 20th US Surgeon General