Donna Shalala | |
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President of the Clinton Foundation | |
Assumed office March 6, 2015 |
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Leader | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Bruce Lindsey |
5th President of the University of Miami | |
In office June 1, 2001 – August 16, 2015 |
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Preceded by | Edward Foote |
Succeeded by | Julio Frenk |
18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | |
In office January 22, 1993 – January 20, 2001 |
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President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Louis Sullivan |
Succeeded by | Tommy Thompson |
Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
In office January 1, 1988 – January 22, 1993 |
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Preceded by | Bernard Cohen |
Succeeded by | David Ward |
Personal details | |
Born |
Donna Edna Shalala February 14, 1941 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater |
Miami University Syracuse University |
Religion | Maronite Catholicism |
Donna Edna Shalala (/ʃəˈleɪlə/ shə-LAY-lə; born February 14, 1941) was the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was the president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously, she was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1988 to 1993. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush in June 2008. Shalala currently serves as the president of the Clinton Foundation.
Shalala was born in Cleveland, Ohio, of Maronite Catholic Lebanese descent, the daughter of Edna Smith and James Abraham Shalala. She has a twin sister, Diane Fritel. She graduated from West Technical High School and received a bachelor's degree, in 1962, from Western College for Women; which in 1976, merged with Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio.