Photo Credit: Michael Geissinger (Library of Congress)

OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Donna Edna Shalala

BORN:
February 14, 1941
Cleveland, Ohio

EDUCATION:
West Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio (1958)
Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio (AB, 1962)
Syracuse University (Ph.D., 1970)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1962-1964:
U.S. Peace Corps
1972-1977:
Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
1977-1980:
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1980-1988:
President and Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York
1988-1993:
Chancellor and Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993-2001:
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
2001-2015:
President, University of Miami
2015-2017:
President, Clinton Foundation
2019-2021:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-FL)
2020:
Unsuccessful Candidate for Reelection to the House

RESOURCES:

President William J. Clinton signing the Immunization Proclamation at his desk in the Oval Office on 4/12/1993. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala is standing next to the President’s desk (Photo by Barbara Kinney/National Archives)

Biographical Directory of Congress
UVA Miller Center
University of Miami
Washington Post
Oral History (UVA Miller Center)
PBS Frontline Interview (10/2000)
Papers (Hunter College)
Wikipedia

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PROFILES:
New York Times (12/12/1992)
Washington Post (1/8/1993)
Washington Post (1/14/1993)