Former American Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
Nancy-Ann DeParle
In office January 27, 2011 – January 25, 2013President
Barack Obama Preceded by
Mona Sutphen Succeeded by
Rob Nabors In office April 8, 2009 – January 27, 2011President
Barack Obama Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Position abolished In office September 1997 – September 29, 2000Acting: September 1997 – November 1997 President
Bill Clinton Preceded by
Bruce Vladeck Succeeded by
Michael Hash (Acting)
Born Nancy-Ann Min
(1956-12-17 ) December 17, 1956 (age 67)
Cleveland ,
Ohio ,
U.S. Political party
Democratic Education
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (
BA )
Balliol College, Oxford (
BA )
Harvard University (
JD )
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle (born December 17, 1956) served as the
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the administration of
President Obama from January 2011 to January 2013.
[1] Previously, she served as the director of the
White House Office of Health Reform ,
[2]
[3] leading the administration's efforts on
health care issues, including the passing of the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . She served as the director of the
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) from 1997 to 2000,
[4] administering the Medicare program for the Clinton administration, and before then worked at the
Office of Management and Budget .
Education and personal life
Nancy-Ann Min was born in
Cleveland, Ohio , to
a Chinese immigrant father and a Euro-American mother.
[5] Raised in
Rockwood, Tennessee , she graduated from Rockwood High School.
[6]
[7] Her mother died of lung cancer when Nancy-Ann was 17.
[8]
She attended the
University of Tennessee in
Knoxville , where her major was history and her senior thesis was entitled "Uncle Sam, Hirohito, and Resegregation: The Tule Lake Segregation Center, 1943-1946." She was awarded a
B.A. degree with highest honors and was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa and selected as a
Phi Kappa Phi scholar.
[7] She was the first female president of the University of Tennessee student body and was a member of the Gamma Alpha chapter of
Delta Gamma . In 1978
Glamour magazine named her one of the year's top ten college women.
[7]
After graduating from Tennessee, she enrolled in
Harvard Law School , but interrupted her studies there when she was awarded a
Rhodes scholarship . As a Rhodes scholar, she went to
Balliol College of
Oxford University , receiving a B.A. from Oxford in 1981.
[7]
[8] After returning to Harvard, she earned a
J.D. degree in 1983.
[7]
She is married to Jason DeParle, a reporter for
The New York Times .
[9] They have two sons.
Career
DeParle was a partner at the law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims in
Nashville before serving as commissioner of the
Tennessee Department of Human Services in the cabinet of Governor
Ned McWherter from 1987 to 1989.
[7]
DeParle has also served as a trustee at the nonprofit
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , a research fellow at
Harvard Kennedy School at
Harvard University , and a fellow at the
Wharton School of Business . She has also been a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). In November 2011, DeParle was included on
The New Republic 's list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people.
[10]
Corporate connections
She served as a director of
Accredo Health Inc. ,
Boston Scientific ,
Cerner ,
DaVita Inc. ,
Guidant ,
Medco Health Solutions , Speciality Laboratories, and
Triad Hospitals . She was a managing director of
CCMP Capital .
[11]
See also
References
^ Tapper, Jake (January 27, 2011).
"Jay Carney Picked as New White House Press Secretary" .
ABC News . Retrieved January 27, 2011 .
^
"White House Biography of Nancy-Ann Min DeParle" . Whitehouse.gov . Archived from
the original on March 12, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
^
"Obama taps Sebelius, DeParle for health posts" . CNN . March 2, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2024 .
^
"Nancy-Ann DeParle" . HCA Investor Center . Archived from
the original on November 13, 2018. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
^
"Nancy-Ann Min DeParle" (PDF) . Chinese American Heroes . Archived from
the original (PDF) on September 13, 2015.
^
"Nancy-Ann DeParle" . Political Base . Archived from
the original on July 23, 2009. Retrieved March 4, 2009 .
^
a
b
c
d
e
f Klein, Milton M.
"Prominent Alumni: Part I" . University of Tennessee . Archived from
the original on April 21, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2010 .
^
a
b Stolberg, Scheryl Gay (March 2, 2009).
"Obama Taps Health Aid With Links to Industry" . New York Times .
^
"Nancy-Ann Min, Jason DeParle" .
The New York Times . March 23, 1997.
^ Allbritton, Robert (November 3, 2011).
"Washington's Most Powerful, Least Famous People" . The New Republic . Retrieved February 26, 2024 .
^ Steinle, Mia (July 2, 2009).
"Details of DeParle's industry connections" . Investigative Reporting Workshop . Archived from
the original on July 6, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2009 .
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