Nancy-Ann DeParle | |
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| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy | |
| In office January 27, 2011 – January 25, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Mona Sutphen |
| Succeeded by | Rob Nabors |
| Director of the Office of Health Reform | |
| In office April 8, 2009 – January 27, 2011 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| 10th Administrator of theCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services | |
| In office September 1997 – September 29, 2000 Acting: September 1997 – November 1997 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Bruce Vladeck |
| Succeeded by | Michael Hash(Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nancy-Ann Min (1956-12-17)December 17, 1956 (age 68) |
| 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 theDeputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the administration ofPresident Obama from January 2011 to January 2013.[1] Previously, she served as the director of theWhite House Office of Health Reform,[2][3] leading the administration's efforts onhealth care issues, including the passing of thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Act. She served as the director of theHealth Care Financing Administration (HCFA) from 1997 to 2000,[4] administering the Medicare program for the Clinton administration, and before then worked at theOffice of Management and Budget.
Nancy-Ann Min was born inCleveland, Ohio, toa Chinese immigrant father and a Euro-American mother.[5] Raised inRockwood, Tennessee, she graduated from Rockwood High School.[6][7] Her mother died of lung cancer when Nancy-Ann was 17.[8]
She attended theUniversity of Tennessee inKnoxville, 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 aB.A. degree with highest honors and was elected toPhi Beta Kappa and selected as aPhi 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 ofDelta Gamma. In 1978Glamour magazine named her one of the year's top ten college women.[7]
After graduating from Tennessee, she enrolled inHarvard Law School, but interrupted her studies there when she was awarded aRhodes scholarship. As a Rhodes scholar, she went toBalliol College ofOxford University, receiving a B.A. from Oxford in 1981.[7][8] After returning to Harvard, she earned aJ.D. degree in 1983.[7]
She is married to Jason DeParle, a reporter forThe New York Times.[9] They have two sons.
DeParle was a partner at the law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims inNashville before serving as commissioner of theTennessee Department of Human Services in the cabinet of GovernorNed McWherter from 1987 to 1989.[7]
DeParle has also served as a trustee at the nonprofitRobert Wood Johnson Foundation, a research fellow atHarvard Kennedy School atHarvard University, and a fellow at theWharton School of Business. She has also been a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). In November 2011, DeParle was included onThe New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people.[10]
She served as a director ofAccredo Health Inc.,Boston Scientific,Cerner,DaVita Inc.,Guidant,Medco Health Solutions, Speciality Laboratories, andTriad Hospitals. She was a managing director ofCCMP Capital.[11]
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| Preceded by | Administrator of theCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services 1997–2000 | Succeeded by |
| New office | Director of the Office of Health Reform 2009–2011 | Position abolished |
| Preceded by | White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy 2011–2013 | Succeeded by |
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