General Services Administration

The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government. It was created in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.

General Services Administration

Seal of the General Services Administration
Logo of the General Services Administration
Flag of the General Services Administration
Agency overview
Formed	July 1, 1949; 76 years ago (1949-07-01)[1]
Headquarters	GSA Building 1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Employees	11,137 (FY 2018)[2]
Annual budget	$33.6 billion[3]
Agency executives	Stephen Ehikian, Acting Administrator Vacant, Deputy Administrator[4]
Child agencies	Public Buildings Service[5] Federal Acquisition Service Staff Offices (12) Independent Offices (2)
Website	www.gsa.gov

GSA gives products and communications for U.S. government offices, provides transportation and office space to federal employees, and develops government-wide cost-minimizing policies and other management tasks.^[6]

List of administrators

Name	Term start	Term end
Jess Larson	July 3, 1949	January 29, 1953
Russell Forbe (Acting)	February 10, 1953	May 1, 1953
Edmund F. Mansure	May 2, 1953	February 29, 1956
Franklin G. Floete	May 3, 1956	January 20, 1961
John Moore	February 7, 1961	November 25, 1961
Bernard L. Boutin	November 27, 1961	November 30, 1964
Lawson B. Knott Jr.	December 1, 1965	February 28, 1969
Robert Lowe Kunzig	March 17, 1969	January 14, 1972
Rod Kreger (Acting)	January 17, 1972	June 1, 1972
Arthur F. Sampson	June 2, 1972	October 15, 1975
Jack Eckerd	November 21, 1975	February 11, 1977
Robert Griffin (Acting)	February 15, 1977	April 29, 1977
Jay Solomon	April 30, 1977	March 31, 1979
Paul Goulding (Acting)	April 1, 1979	June 29, 1979
Rowland G. Freeman III	July 2, 1979	January 14, 1981
Raymond Adam Kline (Acting)	January 15, 1981	May 25, 1981
Gerald P. Carmen	May 26, 1981	February 29, 1984
Raymond Adam Kline (Acting)	March 1, 1984	March 3, 1985
Dwight Ink (Acting)	March 4, 1985	June 28, 1985
Terence Golden	June 29, 1985	March 18, 1988
Paul Trause (Acting)	March 19, 1988	March 31, 1988
John Alderson (Acting)	April 1, 1988	September 26, 1988
Richard Austin	September 27, 1988	January 20, 1993
Robert Jones (Acting)	January 20, 1993	February 3, 1993
Dennis Fischer (Acting)	February 4, 1993	June 13, 1993
Julia Stasch (Acting)	June 13, 1993	July 7, 1993
Roger Johnson	July 8, 1993	February 29, 1996
David J. Barram	March 4, 1996	December 15, 2000
Thurman Davis (Acting)	December 16, 2000	May 30, 2001
Stephen A. Perry	May 31, 2001	October 31, 2005
David Bibb (Acting)	November 1, 2005	May 30, 2006
Lurita A. Doan	May 31, 2006	April 30, 2008
David Bibb (Acting)	May 1, 2008	August 29, 2008
James A. Williams (Acting)	August 30, 2008	January 20, 2009
Paul F. Prouty (Acting)	January 20, 2009	December 21, 2009
Stephen R. Leeds (Acting)	December 22, 2009	February 6, 2010
Martha N. Johnson	February 7, 2010	April 2, 2012
Daniel M. Tangherlini (Acting)	April 3, 2012	July 4, 2013
Daniel M. Tangherlini	July 5, 2013	February 21, 2015
Denise Turner Roth (Acting)	February 22, 2015	August 6, 2015
Denise Turner Roth	August 7, 2015	January 20, 2017
Tim Horne (Acting)	January 20, 2017	December 11, 2017
Emily W. Murphy	December 12, 2017	January 15, 2021
Alison Brigatti (Acting)	January 15, 2021	January 20, 2021
Katy Kale (Acting)	January 20, 2021	July 2, 2021
Robin Carnahan	July 2, 2021[7]	January 20, 2025
Stephen Ehikian (acting)	January 20, 2025	Incumbent