Hoffman, Anna Rosenberg, 1902-1983

An expert on labor mediation and welfare services, Hoffman, a Hungarian immigrant, founded her own consulting firm in 1924 and became an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, N.Y. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, and N.Y. Governor Herbert Lehman. She served as regional director for the National Recovery Administration (1935) and the Social Security Board (1936-1943) during the New Deal; on the Retraining and Reemployment Administration (1941-1945), War Manpower Commission (1942-1945), and Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services during WWII; consulted for the National Security Resources Board, Bureau of Employment Security, and War Mobilization and Reconversion Advisory Board in the postwar period; was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel under George Marshall, the highest post up to that time (1950-1953); and in Sept. 1951 established the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

An expert on labor mediation and welfare services, Hoffman, a Hungarian immigrant, founded her own consulting firm in 1924 and became an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, N.Y. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, and N.Y. Governor Herbert Lehman. She served as regional director for the National Recovery Administration (1935) and the Social Security Board (1936-1943) during the New Deal; on the Retraining and Reemployment Administration (1941-1945), War Manpower Commission (1942-1945), and Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services during World War II; consulted for the National Security Resources Board, Bureau of Employment Security, and War Mobilization and Reconversion Advisory Board in the postwar period; was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel under George Marshall (1950-1953), the highest post ever held by a woman in the defense establishment; and in Sept. 1951 she chaired the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. In 1919 she married businessman Julius Rosenberg; they had one son and were later divorced. In 1963 she married Paul Gray Hoffman.

Government consultant; interviewee married Paul Hoffman.