[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 8 (Monday, March 1, 1993)]
[Pages 274-275]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Nomination of Mary Jo Bane To Be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services for Children and Families

 February 20, 1993

    President Clinton announced today that he will nominate Mary Jo 
Bane, New York

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State's Commissioner of Social Services, to the position of Assistant 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families.
    Ms. Bane has been with the New York Department of Social Services 
since April 1992. She had previously served at that department as 
Executive Deputy Commissioner from 1984 to 1986. In between, she was a 
professor and Director of the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at 
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
    Ms. Bane has also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education 
from 1980 to 81, as an associate professor of education at Harvard 
University Graduate School, and as associate director of the M.I.T.-
Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. She has also been a volunteer 
with the Peace Corps, and is the author of many books and articles on 
welfare and public policy.