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Linda M. Springer
Director
Office of Personnel Management
June 28, 2005: Linda M. Springer was sworn in at 10:30 a.m. as the 8th Director of the
United States Office of Personnel Management.
Ms. Springer was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Director of OPM on
March 18, 2005. She was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June
24, 2005. Prior to her new role as OPM Director, Ms. Springer was unanimously
confirmed in March 2003 by the United States Senate as Controller, White House Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) and head of the Office of Federal Financial
Management where she served through January 2005. As controller of the U.S.
Government, she set and oversaw implementation of financial management policy and
disciplines for the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and is responsible for
implementing the financial management improvement priorities of the President of the
United States. Ms. Springer served as Counselor to the Deputy Director for Management
at OMB from September, 2002 until confirmation.
During her tenure in the Administration, she reduced the Federal Government's year-end
financial reporting time from five months to 45 days, established a Sarbanes-Oxley
equivalent internal control assurance requirement for Federal Government agencies,
directed the development of a Presidential Executive Order to ensure efficient and
effective management of Federal real property assets, and oversaw the first
comprehensive assessment of all Federal Government expenditures for risk of improper
payment.
Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Ms. Springer spent over twenty-five years in
the financial services industry in executive positions responsible for general and financial
management, and strategic and operational planning.
Ms. Springer was Senior Vice President and Controller of Provident Mutual, an
insurance, annuity and financial services company having assets of $9 billion and
insurance in force of nearly $50 billion. In this position, she led the company in achieving
five consecutive years of 13.5% average annual earnings growth and fixed expense
reductions averaging 6% per year. Through a combination of staff upgrading,
outsourcing, and systems enhancements, she improved the operational capacity,
efficiency, and responsiveness of all areas of accountability, including departments
assumed for remediation. Ms. Springer was responsible for key aspects of the company's
$1.6 billion demutualization, including the development and distribution of value to
300,000 contract owners.
During her tenure at Provident, Ms. Springer oversaw human resource management areas
responsible for benefits administration and payroll and was actively involved in the
design, administration, and funding of benefit and compensation packages, including
incentive and profit sharing plans.
Prior to joining Provident in 1992, Ms. Springer held positions of increasing
responsibility at Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1979 until 1992, most
notably as Vice President and Product Manager. In that role she had full profit and loss
responsibility with authority for planning and operations for life and disability insurance.
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