American economist and budget official (1931?2019)
Alice Rivlin
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In office
September 1, 1998 ? September 30, 2001
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Preceded by
| Andrew Brimmer
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Succeeded by
| Position abolished
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In office
June 25, 1996 ? July 16, 1999
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President
| Bill Clinton
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Preceded by
| Alan Blinder
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Succeeded by
| Roger Ferguson
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In office
June 25, 1996 ? July 16, 1999
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President
| Bill Clinton
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Preceded by
| Alan Blinder
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Succeeded by
| Mark W. Olson
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In office
October 17, 1994 ? April 26, 1996
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President
| Bill Clinton
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Preceded by
| Leon Panetta
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Succeeded by
| Franklin Raines
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In office
February 24, 1975 ? August 31, 1983
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Preceded by
| Position established
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Succeeded by
| Rudolph G. Penner
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Born
| Georgianna Alice Mitchell
(
1931-03-04
)
March 4, 1931
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
, U.S.
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Died
| May 14, 2019
(2019-05-14)
(aged 88)
Washington, D.C.
, U.S.
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Political party
| Democratic
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Spouses
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Lewis Rivlin
(
m.
1955;
div.
1977)
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Children
| 3
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Relatives
| Allan C. G. Mitchell
(father)
Samuel Alfred Mitchell
(grandfather)
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Education
| Bryn Mawr College
(
BA
)
Harvard University
(
MA
,
PhD
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Alice Mitchell Rivlin
(born
Georgianna Alice Mitchell
; March 4, 1931 ? May 14, 2019) was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th
vice chair of the Federal Reserve
from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the
Federal Reserve
, Rivlin was named director of the
Office of Management and Budget
in the
Clinton administration
from 1994 to 1996. Prior to that, she was instrumental in the establishment of the
Congressional Budget Office
and became its founding director from 1975 to 1983. A member of the
Democratic Party
, Rivlin was the first woman to hold either of those posts.
While not in government, Dr. Rivlin was a senior fellow for Economic Studies at the
Brookings Institution
and a visiting professor at the
McCourt School of Public Policy
of
Georgetown University
. She was a noted expert on the
U.S. federal budget
and
macroeconomic
policy; and co-chaired, with retired U.S. Senator
Pete Domenici
(R-NM), the
Bipartisan Policy Center
's Debt Reduction Task Force.
[1]
Early life and education
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Georgianna Alice Mitchell was born in
Philadelphia
to a Jewish family. the daughter of Georgianna Peck (Fales)
[2]
and
Allan C. G. Mitchell
.
[3]
She was the granddaughter of
astronomer
Samuel Alfred Mitchell
.
[4]
She grew up in
Bloomington, Indiana
, where her father was on the faculty of
Indiana University
.
[5]
She briefly attended University High School in Bloomington before leaving to attend high school at
Madeira School
. She then went on to study at
Bryn Mawr College
. Initially, she wanted to major in history, but after taking an economics course at
Indiana University
, she decided to change her major to economics.
[6]
Rivlin earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1952, writing her senior thesis on the economic integration of
Western Europe
, and upon graduation, she moved to Europe where she worked on the
Marshall Plan
. Originally, Rivlin wanted to attend graduate school in public administration but was rejected on the grounds that she was a woman of marriageable age. Rivlin earned a
Ph.D.
in
economics
from
Radcliffe College
of
Harvard University
in 1958.
[6]
Career
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Alice Rivlin was affiliated several times with the
Brookings Institution
, including stints in 1957?1966, 1969?1975, 1983?1993, and 1999 to her death. She was a visiting professor at Georgetown University's
McCourt School of Public Policy
. From 1968 to 1969, she was appointed by President
Lyndon B. Johnson
as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,
United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
. In 1971 she authored
Systematic Thinking for Social Action
. She was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1973.
[7]
Rivlin was the first director of the newly established
Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) during 1975?1983. As head of the CBO, she was a persistent and vociferous critic of
Reaganomics
. She was named a 1983
MacArthur Fellow
in recognition of her role as CBO creator. After that Dr. Rivlin served as the deputy director of
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) from 1993 to 1994 and was elevated to OMB director from 1994 to 1996 both in the
Clinton administration
. President Clinton nominated her as the
Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve
from 1996 to 1999. Upon confirmation, Rivlin became the highest-ranked woman in the history of the Federal Reserve at that time. She was also chair of the
District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority
from 1998 to 2001.
[5]
[8]
In 2012, she received a Foremother Award from the
National Research Center for Women & Families
.
[9]
Rivlin was on the Board of Directors at the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD). The institute was created at the University of Arizona after the tragic shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, that killed 6 people and wounded 13 others.
[10]
Debt reduction/fiscal management panels in 2010
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Rivlin and former Senator
Pete Domenici
(
R
-
NM
) were named in January 2010 to chair a Debt Reduction Task Force, sponsored by the
Bipartisan Policy Center
in
Washington, D.C.
[11]
Rivlin soon thereafter was named by President Obama to his 18-member bipartisan
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
panel chaired by former
Senator
Alan K. Simpson
, (R-
WY
), and former
White House Chief of Staff
Erskine Bowles
(
D
), commonly known as the Simpson-Bowles Commission. The balance of the panel is three more members appointed by the President, six members of the
United States House of Representatives
, and six members of the
United States Senate
. The commission first met on April 27, 2010, and had a December report deadline.
[12]
A health-care component of the overall
U.S.
federal
and
state
fiscal-management challenge
was addressed by a panel including Rivlin on
The Diane Rehm Show
in June.
[13]
Along with former Comptroller General
David Walker
, Rivlin danced the
Harlem Shake
in a video produced by The Can Kicks Back, a nonpartisan group that aims to organize
millennials
to pressure lawmakers to address the United States' $16.4 trillion debt.
[14]
The video concludes with her making an importuned plea to the twenty-somethings seated around the room: "There's no dancing around the fact that more needs to be done quickly to put our future debt on a downward track. But our leaders need to hear from you."
Personal life
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Rivlin was of
Cornish
ancestry.
[15]
In 1955, she married former Justice Department attorney Lewis Allen Rivlin of the
Rivlin
family, with whom she had three children;
[16]
they divorced in 1977, although she kept his surname professionally.
[17]
In 1989, she married economist
Sidney G. Winter
.
[5]
She died in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 2019, aged 88.
[5]
[18]
Awards
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Bibliography
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See also
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References
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- ^
"Alice M. Rivlin | Bipartisan Policy Center"
. Bipartisanpolicy.org. January 3, 2018
. Retrieved
May 14,
2019
.
- ^
"Who's who in America: Supplement to Who's who, a current biographical reference service"
. 1940.
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"Alice Rivlin, Fed vice chair who was deficit hawk, dies at 88"
.
Pensions & Investments
. May 14, 2019
. Retrieved
May 16,
2019
.
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"Samuel A. Mitchell - Director, 1913-1945"
.
faculty.virginia.edu
. Archived from
the original
on January 21, 2021
. Retrieved
May 16,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
Hershey Jr., Robert D. (May 14, 2019).
"Alice M. Rivlin, Leading Government Economist, Dies at 88"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
May 15,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
"American Economic Association"
.
www.aeaweb.org
. Retrieved
May 15,
2019
.
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"Book of Members, 1780?2010: Chapter R"
(PDF)
. American Academy of Arts and Sciences
. Retrieved
April 7,
2011
.
- ^
Rivlin Wants to Aid Home Rule
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"Previous Foremother Awards | Center for Research"
. Archived from
the original
on April 14, 2013
. Retrieved
January 3,
2013
.
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"Alice Rivlin"
. National Institute for Civil Discourse
. Retrieved
August 28,
2017
.
- ^
"
"The Domenici/Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force" by Kathryn Nix"
.
The Foundry
. The Heritage Foundation. January 26, 2010.
Archived
from the original on January 28, 2010
. Retrieved
January 27,
2010
.
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"White House: Getting to the Root Causes of Our Fiscal Challenges"
.
whitehouse.gov
. April 27, 2010
. Retrieved
May 14,
2019
– via
National Archives
.
- ^
"Medicare Reimbursment [
sic
] Rates and Deficit Spending"
with Stuart Guterman of
The Commonwealth Fund
, Ron Pollack of
Families USA
, and Brian Riedl of
The Heritage Foundation
,
The Diane Rehm Show
, June 15, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
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Ashton, Kevin (March 28, 2013).
"How Memes Are Orchestrated by the Man"
.
The Atlantic
.
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Paulette Olson, Engendering Economics: Conversations With Women Economists in the United States, Routledge, March 29, 2002
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STEVEN GREENHOUSE (June 28, 1994).
"SHAKE-UP AT THE WHITE HOUSE: BUDGET DIRECTOR Woman in the News; A Hawk on Budgets ? Alice Mitchell Rivlin ? The New York Times"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
May 14,
2019
.
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Chicago Tribune: "Ex-husband of Fed official ordered to pay $6.5 million"
August 29, 2001
- ^
Kurtzleben, Danielle (May 14, 2019).
"Alice Rivlin, First Woman To Serve As Budget Director, Dies At Age 88"
.
NPR.org
. Retrieved
May 14,
2019
.
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"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement"
.
www.achievement.org
.
American Academy of Achievement
.
- ^
"American Economic Association"
.
www.aeaweb.org
. Retrieved
May 15,
2019
.
- ^
"2008"
.
AAPSS
. June 28, 2016
. Retrieved
March 8,
2023
.
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"Foremother and Health Policy Hero Awards Luncheon"
.
National Center for Health Research
. May 7, 2018
. Retrieved
May 15,
2019
.
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Tom Shoop.
"Inaugural Inductees Into Government Hall of Fame Unveiled - Government Executive"
. Govexec.com
. Retrieved
August 16,
2019
.
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