The White House has
announced that Carolyn Colvin has been nominated for the vacant position of Deputy Commissioner of Social Security. Here is background information on Colvin supplied by the White House:
Carolyn W. Colvin is Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation. Prior to this position, she was the CEO of AMERIGROUP Community Care, a company dedicated to caring for the financially vulnerable, seniors and people with disabilities through publicly-funded programs. Colvin served as the Director of Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services for over three years and as Cabinet Director of the Department of Human Services for the District of Columbia for over two years. She also brings over six and a half years experience working for the Social Security Administration, serving as the Deputy Commissioner for Operations and the Deputy Commissioner for Programs and Policy. In those roles, she provided executive leadership and directed the work of nearly 50,000 employees and the policy and programs of Social Security. She currently is a member of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the Arundel Community Development Services, the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The White House has announced that Carolyn Colvin has been nominated for the vacant position of Deputy Commissioner of Social Security. Here is background information on Colvin supplied by the White House:
The following gives more specific to her past (2001 and earlier)
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She seems an experienced deputy. Too bad she is not REPLACING Astrue instead of once again being a deputy.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious as to how diverse the alj current positions held. An african america/black woman is certainly welcomed depending on ssa's diversity.
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ReplyDeleteIs she being sent to oversee Astrue? We'll see. But, one way or another, the DCOSS doesn't really have that much power. And, the STIM money has already been obligated to bricks and mortar, or wunderbar new silver-bullet software.
ReplyDeleteThe halls of the Altmeyer Building will no doubt remain shrouded in tomb-like silence. Too bad. We need some shoe throwing I think. To you doubters out there, don't knock it unless you've tried it.
She's probably an Astrue-watcher for the White House. She was pleasant but pretty "thin" (and I don't mean physically) in her last stint with SSA, and there's no reason to believe she got any brighter in the interim. All in all, a rather surprising choice, unless, as I say, her only role is to keep an eye on Astrue.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could get Shawn Colvin instead.
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