Homeland Security Advisor

The Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, also known as Homeland Security Advisor, is a senior aide in the National Security Council. They are the principal advisor to the President of the United States on homeland security and counterterrorism issues.

Assistant to the President for Homeland Security
Incumbent Stephen Miller since January 20, 2025
Executive Office of the President Homeland Security Council
Member of	National Security Council Homeland Security Council
Reports to	President of the United States White House Chief of Staff United States National Security Advisor
Appointer	President of the United States
Constituting instrument	Homeland Security Act 2002
Formation	2001
First holder	Tom Ridge
Deputy	Joshua Geltzer

List of homeland security advisors

      Democratic       Republican       Independent

Image	Name		Start	End	Duration	President
		Ridge, TomTom Ridge	October 8, 2001	January 24, 2003	1 year, 126 days		Bush, George W.George W. Bush
		John Gordon	April 30, 2003	July 28, 2004	1 year, 89 days
		Townsend, FranFran Townsend	July 28, 2004	March 30, 2008	3 years, 246 days
		Wainstein, KenKen Wainstein	March 30, 2008	January 20, 2009	296 days
		Brennan, JohnJohn Brennan	January 20, 2009	January 25, 2013	4 years, 5 days		Obama, BarackBarack Obama
		Monaco, LisaLisa Monaco	January 25, 2013	January 20, 2017	3 years, 361 days
		Bossert, TomTom Bossert	January 20, 2017	April 10, 2018	1 year, 49 days		Trump, DonaldDonald Trump
		Joyce, RobRob Joyce Acting	April 10, 2018	May 31, 2018	51 days
		Fears, DougDoug Fears	June 1, 2018	July 12, 2019	1 year, 41 days
		Brown, PeterPeter Brown	July 12, 2019	February 7, 2020	210 days
		Nesheiwat, JuliaJulia Nesheiwat	February 20, 2020	January 20, 2021	334 days
		Sherwood-Randall, LizLiz Sherwood-Randall	January 20, 2021	January 20, 2025	4 years, 0 days		Biden, JoeJoe Biden
		Miller, StephenStephen Miller	January 20, 2025	Incumbent	1 year, 120 days		Trump, DonaldDonald Trump