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

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, leading the administration's efforts on

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issues, including the passing of the

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. 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

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Education and personal life

Nancy-Ann Min was born in

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, to a Chinese immigrant father and a Euro-American mother.http://www.chineseamericanheroes.org/heroes/2012/Nancy%20Ann%20Min%20Deparle.pdf Raised in Rockwood, Tennessee, she graduated from Rockwood High School.Milton M. Klein
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, University of Tennessee website, accessed October 2, 2010 Her mother died of lung cancer when Nancy-Ann was 17.Stolberg, Scheryl Gay. "Obama Taps Health Aid With Links to Industry." New York Times 2 Mar. 2009: She attended the

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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

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with highest honors and was elected to

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and selected as a

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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

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, but interrupted her studies there when she was awarded a

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ship. As a Rhodes scholar, she went to Balliol College of

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, receiving a B.A. from Oxford in 1981. After returning to Harvard, she earned a J.D. degree in 1983. She is married to Jason DeParle, a reporter for ''

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''. They have two sons.

Career

DeParle was a partner at the law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims in

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before serving as commissioner of the

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Department of Human Services in the cabinet of Governor

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from 1987 to 1989. DeParle has also served as a trustee at the nonprofit

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, a research fellow at

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, and a fellow at the

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. She has also been a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). In November 2011, DeParle was included on ''

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's'' list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people.

Corporate connections

She served as a director of Accredo Health Inc., Boston Scientific,

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, DaVita Inc., Guidant,

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, Speciality Laboratories, and Triad Hospitals. She was a managing director of CCMP Capital.

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Career

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