2002 - Dr. Jane Henney
Former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
For the past 20 years, Dr. Jane Henney has served in a series of senior health policy leadership positions in the public sector. Beginning in 1980, she served for five years as the Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute, subsequently she joined the University of Kansas Medical Center as Vice Chancellor of Health Programs, and, for 18 months, Interim Dean of the School of Medicine.
From Kansas she was recruited back to the federal sector and served as Deputy Commissioner for Operations of the Food and Drug Administration, where she stayed until assuming the position as the first Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of New Mexico. In l998 she was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Commissioner of Food and Drugs of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. She served in this capacity until January 2001.
