diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 45f298d46c..dbc4043f4d 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
   document properties edited events. Preserve the user that
   initially creates the document. GitLab issue #433. Thanks
   to Jesaja Everling (@jeverling) for the report.
+- Sort the list of root cabinets. Thanks to Thomas Plotkowiak
+  for the request.
 
 
 2.7.1 (2017-09-03)
diff --git a/mayan/apps/cabinets/views.py b/mayan/apps/cabinets/views.py
index 6b418ca7ac..0fed347728 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/cabinets/views.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/cabinets/views.py
@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ class CabinetListView(SingleObjectListView):
         }
 
     def get_object_list(self):
-        return Cabinet.objects.root_nodes()
+        # Add explicit ordering of root nodes since the queryset returned
+        # is not affected by the model's order Meta option.
+        return Cabinet.objects.root_nodes().order_by('label')
 
 
 class DocumentCabinetListView(CabinetListView):