Nelson McCain Ford (born June 3, 1947 in

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)http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_senate_hearings&docid=f:46092.pdf was United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2007 to 2009.

Education

Nelson M. Ford was educated at

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( B.A. in

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) and the

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( M.Ed.).

Career

In the 1970s, Ford was Executive Secretary of the Health Care Financing Administration and worked in the

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policy issues. He later joined

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and became a

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to health care companies. In the 1990s, he became

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of the Georgetown University Medical Center. In 1997, he became President and

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of Clinipad, a

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of disposable medical products. Ford joined the

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in 2002 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Budgets & Financial Policy). In 2005, he became Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), and the next year

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named Ford full Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller). In 2007, President Bush nominated Ford as United States Under Secretary of the Army. Ford held this post until 2009. Ford worked as President & CEO of LMI, a not-for-profit government consulting firm based in McLean, Va, from 2009 until he retired in June 2017.

References

External links

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Biography from the Dept. of the Army

Biography of Nelson M. Ford at LMI
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