Nancy-Ann Min DeParle is an attorney and health policy expert born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Rockwood, Tennessee. She earned a B.A. in history with highest honors from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (1978), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, served as the first female president of the student body, and was named one of Glamour magazine's top ten college women. As a Rhodes Scholar, she received a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her career began in private practice as a lawyer in Nashville and Washington, D.C., followed by her role as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services in the Governor's Cabinet. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Associate Director for Health and Personnel in the White House Office of Management and Budget and as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA, now CMS) from 1997-2000 (acting from September 1997). From 2001-2009, she was a Senior Advisor and Managing Director in the Healthcare Group at JPMorgan Partners (JPMP)/CCMP Capital Advisors, served six years as Commissioner of MedPAC, and was a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Under President Obama, she was Director of the White House Office of Health Reform (2009-2011) and later Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. She is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Consonance Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in U.S. healthcare. DeParle is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and co-chairs the Stanford Health Policy Advisory Council. She serves on the New York State Commission on the Future of Health Care and holds current board and trustee positions including Director at CVS Health, HCA Healthcare, Embark Behavioral Health, Priority OnDemand, Psychiatric Medical Care (Chair), and Sellers Dorsey (all Consonance-related where noted), and Trustee at Duke University (elected 2021, chairs Undergraduate Education Committee and serves on Executive and Governance Committees). Former board memberships include Consonance exits (Enclara Healthcare, Turn-Key Health, KEPRO), CareMore, LHP Hospital Group, MedQuest, Accredo, Cerner, DaVita, Guidant, Medco Health, Triad Hospitals, Boston Scientific, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.