Nora Anne Dowd Eisenhower (née Dowd; born December, 1953), daughter to Thomas F. and Anne M. (Ruskan) Dowd, is a public administrator who specializes in issues of aging. Since 2013, she has been Assistant Director for the Office of Older Americans at the U.S.

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. She was Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging from 2002 to 2008. Between 2011 and 2013 she was affiliated with the

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where she was the Director of the National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment, then the Senior Vice President of Economic Security. Earlier, from 2000 to 2002, she served as the AARP state director for Pennsylvania. Eisenhower attended

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, Long Island, NY, 1968–1972. She received her bachelor's degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979. After earning her J.D. degree from

Antioch University Antioch University is a private university with multiple campuses in the United States and online programs. Founded in 1852 as Antioch College, its first president was politician, abolitionist, and education reformer Horace Mann. It changed its ...

in 1982, she was a staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., where she prosecuted telemarketing fraud and other cases of consumer fraud. She later served for six years as Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General in the Bureau of Consumer Protection. She is married to

Jim Eisenhower James J. Eisenhower (born January 30, 1958) is an American lawyer and judge from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a judge on the Pennsylvania First Judicial District's Court of Common Pleas. He was previously a Judge of the Pennsylvania Co ...

. They have two children.

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Living people State cabinet secretaries of Pennsylvania People of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1953 births Antioch University alumni Stony Brook University alumni {{Pennsylvania-politician-stub