Donna Shalala


Donna Edna Shalala was the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was the president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously, she was the chancellor of the University of WisconsinMadison from 1988 to 1993. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush in June 2008. Shalala currently serves as the president of the Clinton Foundation.

Shalala was born in Cleveland, Ohio, of Maronite Catholic Lebanese descent, to Edna Smith and James Abraham Shalala. She has a twin sister, Diane Fritel. She graduated from West Technical High School and received a bachelors degree, in 1962, from Western College for Women which in 1976, merged with Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio.

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