The Secretary of Health and Education is the Cabinet secretary in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education. ("Twenty-Five")
During the Bartlet administration, Jim Kane was the Secretary of Health and Education. ("The Last Hurrah")
- Secretary of Health and Education was only mentioned once, in "Twenty-Five." Jim Kane was specifically referred to by Helen Santos as the "Secretary of Education" in "The Last Hurrah."
- In our world, the two departments are separate, with a Secretary of Health and Human Services and a Secretary of Education. The two were created from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1980, which is after the apparent split between our world and that of The West Wing.