Nancy-Ann DeParle

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.

Nancy-Ann DeParle
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
Administrator of the Centers 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 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	University of Tennessee, Knoxville (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (BA) Harvard University (JD)

Education and personal life

Nancy-Ann Min was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Rockwood, Tennessee, where she graduated from Rockwood High School.[5][6] Her mother died of lung cancer when Nancy-Ann was 17.[7]

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.[6] 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.[6]

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.[6][7] After returning to Harvard, she earned a J.D. degree in 1983.[6]

She is married to Jason DeParle, a reporter for The New York Times.[8] She has two sons.

She has Chinese ancestry.[9]

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.[6]

DeParle has also served as a trustee at the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government 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

• List of czars of the Obama administration

References

1. Tapper, Jake (2011-01-27). "Jay Carney Picked as New White House Press Secretary". ABC News. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
2. "White House Biography of Nancy-Ann Min DeParle". Whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
3. "Obama taps Sebelius, DeParle for health posts". CNN. March 2, 2009.
4. "Nancy-Ann DeParle | HCA Investor Center". investor.hcahealthcare.com. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
5. "Nancy-Ann DeParle". Politicalbase.com. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
6. Milton M. Klein, Prominent Alumni: Nancy-Ann Elizabeth Min Archived 2011-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, University of Tennessee website, accessed October 2, 2010
7. Stolberg, Scheryl Gay. "Obama Taps Health Aid With Links to Industry." New York Times 2 Mar. 2009:
8. "Nancy-Ann Min, Jason DeParle". The New York Times. March 23, 1997.
9. ""Asian Americans in the Obama administration" (SAMPAN article)". Sampan.org. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
10. The Editors (2011-11-03). "Washington's Most Powerful, Least Famous People". The New Republic. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2009-07-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• "Nancy-Ann DeParle collected news and commentary". The New York Times.
• HealthCare.gov
• Health Care Reform Newsmaker Series: Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director, White House Office of Health Reform at the Kaiser Family Foundation
• Nancy-Ann DeParle's file at PolitiFact.com
• Reality Check: Nancy-Ann DeParle's Stellar Record at WhiteHouse.gov, September 28, 2009

Political offices
Preceded by Bruce Vladeck	Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 1997–2000	Succeeded by Michael Hash Acting
New office	Director of the Office of Health Reform 2009–2011	Position abolished
Preceded by Mona Sutphen	White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy 2011–2013	Succeeded by Rob Nabors