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1994.01.24 : New OCSE Director

January 24, 1994; ACF
Contact:  Don Collins
(202) 401-1123

     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today named David Gray Ross as
deputy director, Office of Child Support Enforcement, in the HHS
Administration for Children and Families.  As deputy director, Ross 
is responsible for the development, management and oversight of the
federal child support enforcement program. 

     "David Ross brings invaluable experience and perspective as a
judge who has been in the forefront of making child support work
for children and families.  He has seen and heard children and
families in need and has made the difficult, daily decisions to
help improve their lives," said Secretary Shalala. "It is that kind
of experience that will help to enhance this administration's
efforts to improve child support enforcement in this country."

     Ross most recently served for 15 years as a circuit court
judge in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he was responsible
for the child support and paternity adjudication efforts of the
Family Law Division.  He also served as a member of the Maryland
General Assembly from 1970-1978 where he was a member of the House
of Delegates' Committee on the Judiciary and a member of the House
Committee on Ways and Means.  From May 1968 to January 1970, Ross
was a Prince Georges County juvenile court judge.

     Long active in the child support area, Judge Ross has received
numerous awards including a Chief Justice Warren E. Burger "Healer" 
Award by the Children's Rights Council in 1993.  In 1990, he was 
named as co-winner of the Golden Heart Award by ACES (Association
for Children for Enforcement of Support).  In 1989, Judge Ross was
named "Family Court Judge of the Nation" by the National Child
Support Enforcement Association.  In 1986, he was honored as the
"Judge of the Year of Maryland" by the Maryland Joint Child Support
Council and in 1983 he received the "Judge of the Year of America"
award from the National Reciprocal Family Support Enforcement
Association.

     "I look forward to the contributions that David Ross will make
to the national child support enforcement program.  He is well-
respected by those who work with this program whether as government
administrators or as advocates," said Mary Jo Bane, assistant
secretary for children and families and director, Office of Child
Support Enforcement.

     Ross was born Aug. 9, 1935, in Quanah, Texas.  He attended
George Washington University, American University and the American
University School of Law.  He is a retired colonel, Judge Advocate
General's Corps, United States Army Reserve, and has been an 
adjunct professor of management at the Florida Institute of
Technology.  In 1980, he was appointed by President Carter to the
National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention.