Category: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala


Donna Shalala, representative-elect for Florida's 27th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, served as the United States secretary of health and human services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, the longest serving HHS secretary and the first Lebanese-American to serve in a Cabinet position. She currently serves as Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami. Shalala was born February 14, 1941, in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts in 1962 from Western College for Women. From 1962 to […]