Beverly Malone

Beverly Malone
Beverly Malone in 2003
Chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing
In office February 2007 – incumbent
General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing
In office June 2001 – December 2006
Preceded by	Christine Hancock
Succeeded by	Peter Carter
Deputy assistant secretary for health
In office 1999–2001
President of the American Nurses Association
In office 1996–2000
Personal details
Born	1948
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Divorced
Children	Two: Tosha and Jelani
Alma mater	University of Cincinnati
Religion	Baptist

Beverly Malone (born 1948) is the chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing in the United States. Prior to assuming this position in February 2007 she served as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom for six years.

Beverly Louise Malone was born in 1948 and was the eldest of seven siblings. Her mother worked as a tax auditor for the Internal Revenue Service and her father was a train engineer. She was raised in Elizabethtown, in rural Kentucky, in the segregated deep south of the United States by her great grandmother.

Malone obtained a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Cincinnati in 1970. From 1970 she worked as a nurse in Newark and Irvington (both New Jersey), obtaining a master's degree in adult psychiatric nursing from Rutgers University in Newark in 1972. In 1972 she was appointed Instructor of Psychiatric Nursing at Wayne State University in Michigan. From 1973 she was a specialist nurse, professor and administrator at University Hospital, Cincinnati. She obtained her PhD in clinical psychology from Cincinnati University in 1981 and was then Assistant Administrator of the Medical Centre. In 1986 Malone was made dean of the School of Nursing at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a historically black university. She became Vice Chancellor in 1994. In North Carolina, she also served on a number of public bodies (including the Governor's Task Force on Nursing Shortage, the North Carolina Commission on Health Services, and the Board of Directors of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program).