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1993.09.20 :  Appointment of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs

September 20, 1993

     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala has announced the appointment
of Ann Rosewater as deputy assistant secretary for policy and
external affairs in the Administration for Children and Families.
     For the last three years, Ms. Rosewater has been an Atlanta-
based public policy consultant.  In this capacity she served as
senior associate with the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the
University of Chicago, senior consultant to The Pew Charitable
Trusts' Children's Initiative and to the Annie E. Casey, Ford and
Rockefeller Foundations, where she brought about new
collaboration among their multi-site urban change initiatives. 
Among her other clients has been The Atlanta Project, spearheaded
by former President Jimmy Carter.
     "Ann Rosewater has been a champion of the rights of this
country's children and their families," Secretary Shalala said in
announcing the appointment.  "She brings to the department
extensive Congressional experience as well as an impressive
background in developing the policies and programs for children
and their families which our leadership needs.  I welcome her
contributions as we create new approaches to welfare reform,
family preservation, Head Start, and social services affecting
empowerment zones and enterprise communities.  Ann's
extraordinary commitment to investing in the families of the
future will ensure that they enjoy a safer and more prosperous
tomorrow."
      Prior to 1990, Ms. Rosewater was staff director of the U.S.
House of Representatives Select Committee on Children, Youth, and
Families, which she helped establish in 1983.  During that time
she was responsible for issuing over 80 reports on a broad range
of issues affecting American families and their children,
including health care, education, child care, poverty, tax
policy, alcohol and drug abuse, adolescent development, income
maintenance and family support programs.  Prior to the
committee's creation, she served as senior legislative assistant
to Congressman George Miller of California.
     During the 1970s, Ms. Rosewater was principal education
staff for the Children's Defense Fund, assistant to the vice
president of the National Urban Coalition, and research staff of
the Metropolitan Applied Research Center in New York City.
     In 1990, Rosewater was the first non-elected official to
receive the Leadership in Human Services Award of the American
Public Welfare Association; she also received the President's
Certificate for Outstanding Service from the American Academy of
Pediatrics.  She was a member of the Leadership Atlanta class of
1992-93.  Prior to joining the Clinton administration, she served
as a national Board Member of the Jewish Fund for Justice, the
Family Resource Coalition and the Youth Law Center, a member of
the Georgians for Children Board of Directors, and on a wide
range of national and local advisory boards.
     Ms. Rosewater has also written numerous articles, reports
and papers on comprehensive community-focused reforms, child and
family policy, education, child health and handicapped children. 
Among the most recent are two prepared on behalf of Grantmakers
for Children, Youth and Families:  "Comprehensive Approaches for
Children and Families:  A Philanthropic Perspective" and
"Grantmaking in A New Era: Confronting Public Deficits, Seizing
New Opportunities," as well as "The Real Deficit: Child Health
and Public Policy in the U.S.," Transactions and Studies of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Series 5, Volume 13, No.1.
     A native of Philadelphia, Ms. Rosewater is a graduate of
Wellesley College and received a master's degree from Columbia
University.
     The HHS Administration for Children and Families brings
together in one organization the broad range of federal programs
that address the needs of children and families and low income
communities, as well as programs serving special populations,
including refugees, Native Americans and developmentally disabled
persons.  These programs are at the heart of the federal effort
to strengthen families and communities and to give all children a
decent chance to succeed.  The agency's budget is over $30
billion.