Judith Kurland

Judith Kurland was a Regional Director for the United States Department of Health and Human Services during the second Clinton administration. She was appointed by Secretary of HHS Donna Shalala in 1997. ^[1].

Kurland received her B.A. in political science from Mount Holyoke College in 1967. She served as the first Female Commissioner of the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, ^[2] Massachusetts from 1988 to 1993 and served on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health, Simmons College, and the medical schools of Boston University and Tufts University. From 1983 - 1988, she was vice president of strategic planning at the New England Medical Center. Kurland began her public career in 1967 as legislative director for the late Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives and later served as chief of staff for former Congressman Michael J. Harrington of MA in 1973. ^[3] She was on the board of trustees at Mount Holyoke until 2000. ^[4].