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1993.06.09 : Appointment -- Nan Hunter

Contact: Victor Zonana    Wednesday, June 9, 1993
(202) 690-6343

       HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala has announced the
appointment of law professor Nan D. Hunter of New York City as
deputy general counsel/legal counsel for the Department of Health
and Human Services.
       In her new position Hunter, 44, assists the general
counsel in providing formal and informal legal advice and
opinions to the secretary and other HHS officials.  She also
formulates legal advice concerning departmental activities and
proposed activities about which there is little or no case law
precedent and develops new and innovative legal approaches to
departmental problems.
       Hunter came to HHS from the Brooklyn Law School where
since 1990 she had taught First Amendment law, civil procedure
and sexuality and the law.
       During 1981-1990, Hunter was an attorney with the American
Civil Liberties Union in New York, first as a staff counsel
handling federal court litigation and public education and,
starting in 1986, as director of the AIDS Project and the Lesbian
and Gay Rights Project.  She supervised other attorneys as well
as litigated cases in federal and state courts. 
       From 1976 to 1981, she was a founding partner and attorney
handling employment discrimination and family law matters in the
Washington, D.C., firm of Hunter, Polikoff, Bodley and Bottum.  

During that period she also taught at the George Washington
University School of Law and the Catholic University School of
Law.
       Hunter was born in Wilmington, N.C.  She received her
bachelor's degree in political science from Northwestern
University in 1971 and graduated from the Georgetown University
Law Center in 1975.
       She is co-author of two books -- one of them, "AIDS
Agenda: Emerging Issues in Civil Rights," published in 1992 --
and author of numerous scholarly articles.
       Hunter has litigated numerous cases in the federal courts,
including the U.S. Supreme Court, on issues involving health
care, freedom of expression, privacy and women's and gay rights. 
She has testified several times before Congress on matters
related to health care, and was named principal investigator in
1989 for the first Ford Foundation grant to study AIDS-related
legal issues.

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