President-elect Donald Trump will appoint Washington Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to run the Interior Department, according to reports swirling around the nation's capitol on Friday.

McMorris Rodgers is a key part of the majority leadership in the House of Representatives. Her position as chair of the Republican Conference makes her the highest-ranking GOP woman in Congress.

If she is Trump's pick, his cabinet will be one woman short of the most female-packed in history for an incoming president.

President-elect Donald Trump met with Cathy McMorris Rodgers on November 20; she is reportedly his pick to head the Department of the Interior

Linda McMahon (left) will head the Small Business Administration when Trump takes office, and Nikki Haley (right) will be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

Betsy DeVos (left) will be secretary of education, and Elaine Chao (right) will lead the Transportation Department

The president-elect has already chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to represent the U.S. at the United Nations; Elaine Chao to run the Transportation Department; Betsy DeVos as secretary of education and Linda McMahon to head the Small Business Administration.

The Wall Street Journal put McMorris Rodgers' name in the mix on Friday morning. Separately, a Trump transition source told DailyMail.com that she was the top candidate for the Interior posting.

President Barack Obama currently holds the record with six women serving in his initial cabinet.

Then-Senator Hillary Clinton was his first secretary of state in 2009. Hilda Solis ran his Labor Department. Obama chose Kathleen Sebelius, then the governor of Kansas, to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Then-Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano was Obama's initial homeland security secretary. Karen Mills was his first Small Business Administration chief. And Susan Rice served as Obama's first United Nations ambassador pick.

Hillary Clinton (top) started 2009 as the newly minted secretary of state; Hilda Solis (left), Kathleen Sebelius (center) and Janet Napolitano were Obama's picks for Labor, Health and

Liberals criticized Trump during the presidential campaign season as a misogynist, citing decade-old demeaning comments about females as evidence that he couldn't match Clinton's record as a women's advocate.

McMorris Rodgers would be expected to lead an effort to open up federal lands and waters to fossil-fuel development, the Journal reported.

She has also put significant muscle behind promoting hydropower, a renewable alternative energy source that is her state's bread and butter.

President Obama has put millions of acres of land and oceans off-limits to oil and gas exploration, something Trump has signaled that he would like to reverse.