Shalala, Donna E. (Donna Edna), 1941-

<p>Donna Edna Shalala (/ʃəˈleɪlə/ shə-LAY-lə; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton Administrations, as well as in the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 27th congressional district from January 3, 2019, to January 3, 2021.</p>

<p>She previously served as the 18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2008.</p>

<p>Shalala served as President of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously she was the President of Hunter College from 1980 until 1988 and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1988 to 1993. Shalala also served as Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami, and was President of the Clinton Foundation from 2015 to 2017.</p>

<p>She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 election, in a district which includes just over half of Miami as well as some of its eastern suburbs, that had been represented by a retiring Republican. She was defeated in the 2020 general election by former newscaster Maria Elvira Salazar, Shalala's 2018 opponent, in an upset.</p>

SHALALA, Donna, a Representative from Florida; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, February 14, 1941; graduated from West Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1958; A.B., Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, 1962; Ph.D., Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 1970; United States Peace Corps, 1962-1964; professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1972-1977; assistant secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1977-1980; professor and president, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York City, N.Y., 1980-1987; professor and chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., 1987-1993; Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President William J. Clinton, 1993-2001; president, University of Miami, Miami, Fla., 2001-2015; nonprofit executive; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress (January 3, 2019-January 3, 2021); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020.

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