White House Office of the Staff Secretary

White House Office of the Staff Secretary

Agency overview
Formed	1953; 71 years ago (1953)
Headquarters	West Wing, White House Washington, D.C., U.S. 38°53′51″N 77°02′15″W / 38.8975°N 77.0376°W / 38.8975; -77.0376
Agency executive	Stefanie Feldman, Staff Secretary
Parent department	White House Office

The Staff Secretary ("Staff Sec") is a position in the White House Office responsible for managing paper flow to the President and circulating documents among senior staff for comment. It has been referred to as "the nerve center of the White House." Specifically, the Office of the Staff Secretary decides which decision memos, briefing materials, lists of potential nominees, briefing books, intelligence reports, schedules, correspondence, and speech drafts end up on the president’s desk, as well as how and when the president will receive them. The Staff Secretary also works with senior White House staff to edit all of these materials and ensure they are ready for the president's consumption.

The Office of the Staff Secretary is generally composed of a Staff Secretary, a Deputy Staff Secretary, and several Associate Staff Secretaries. The Office of the Staff Secretary, along with its sub-offices—the Office of the Executive Clerk, the Office of Records Management, and the Office of Presidential Correspondence—is the largest of the White House Offices.^[1]

The current Staff Secretary is Stefanie Feldman.^[2]