Nancy-Ann DeParle | |
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy | |
In office January 27, 2011 – January 25, 2013 |
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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 |
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President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Bruce Vladeck |
Succeeded by | Michael Hash (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
December 17, 1956
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville Balliol College, Oxford Harvard University |
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. Previously, she served as the director of the White House Office of Health Reform, 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, administering the Medicare program for the Clinton administration, and before then worked at the Office of Management and Budget.
Nancy-Ann Min was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Rockwood, Tennessee, where she graduated from Rockwood High School. Her mother died of lung cancer when Nancy-Ann was 17.
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. 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.
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. After returning to Harvard, she earned a J.D. degree in 1983.