Julie Su
Julie Su | |||||||||||||
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蘇維思 | |||||||||||||
Official portrait, 2021 | |||||||||||||
| Deputy Mayor of New York City for Economic Justice | |||||||||||||
| Assumed office March 1, 2026 | |||||||||||||
| Mayor | Zohran Mamdani | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||||||
| United States Secretary of Labor | |||||||||||||
| Acting March 11, 2023 – January 20, 2025 | |||||||||||||
| President | Joe Biden | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Marty Walsh | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Lori Chavez-DeRemer | ||||||||||||
| 37th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor | |||||||||||||
| In office July 17, 2021 – January 20, 2025 | |||||||||||||
| President | Joe Biden | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Patrick Pizzella | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Keith E. Sonderling | ||||||||||||
| Secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency | |||||||||||||
| In office January 7, 2019 – July 17, 2021 | |||||||||||||
| Governor | Gavin Newsom | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | David Lanier | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Natalie Palugyai | ||||||||||||
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| Born | February 19, 1969 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Party | Democratic | ||||||||||||
| Education | Stanford University (BA) Harvard University (JD) | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 蘇維思 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 苏维思 | ||||||||||||
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Julie Ann Su (Chinese: 蘇維思; born February 19, 1969) is an American attorney and government official who has served as Deputy Mayor of New York City for Economic Justice since March 2026. A member of the Democratic Party, Su acted as U.S. secretary of labor from 2023 to 2025, while she was the deputy secretary of labor from 2021 to 2025. She previously served as the California secretary of labor from 2019 to 2021 and California labor commissioner from 2011 to 2018.
Su began her career as a lawyer, notably serving as the lead attorney for the El Monte Thai garment slavery case in 1995. She was appointed as the California labor commissioner by Governor Jerry Brown in 2011, overseeing California's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, before becoming the state's secretary of labor in 2019 under Governor Gavin Newsom. Su was nominated to serve as the U.S. deputy secretary of labor by President Joe Biden and was sworn in as the 37th deputy secretary on July 17, 2021, following Senate confirmation. Following the resignation of Secretary Marty Walsh, Su became acting secretary on March 11, 2023, and was nominated by President Biden to fill the position permanently. Su's confirmation stalled in the Senate, however, she was retained in an acting capacity for the duration of the Biden administration. Following the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, Su was selected to fill the newly created position of deputy mayor for economic justice, taking office on January 1, 2026.