Katherine Wallman | |
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Chief Statistician of the United States | |
In office November 1992 –January 3, 2017 | |
President | George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Hermann Habermann |
Succeeded by | Nancy Potok |
Personal details | |
Born | New Jersey,U.S. |
Died | [1] | January 17,2024
Education | Wellesley College (BA) |
Katherine K. Wallman was an American statistician who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017. [2] In that role at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget,she provided coordination,guidance,and oversight for the Federal Statistical System of the United States. [3]
She held a BA in sociology from Wellesley College. [4]
In 1983 Wallman was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [5] She was the president of the American Statistical Association in 1992, [6] and Chairwoman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2004-5. [2] She has made several appearances on C-SPAN. [7]
Wallman organized efforts to pass and implement the 2002 CIPSEA law which standardized confidentiality-protection and information-sharing by U.S. federal government statistical agencies. [8]
She died in January,2024.
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