Maria Echaveste
| Maria Echaveste | |
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Echaveste (right) with President Clinton
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| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy | |
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In office June 29, 1998 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Sylvia Burwell |
| Succeeded by | Joshua Bolten |
| Director of the Office of Public Liaison | |
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In office February 7, 1997 – June 29, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Alexis Herman |
| Succeeded by | Minyon Moore |
| Personal details | |
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May 31, 1954 Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Christopher Edley |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University University of California, Berkeley |
Maria Echaveste (born May 31, 1954) is a former U.S. presidential advisor to Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief of Staff during the second Clinton administration. She is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a presidential administration. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group, a policy, legislative strategy and advocacy group working with non-profit and corporate clients.
Echaveste was born in Texas as one of seven children born to Mexican immigrants. Her family later moved to California, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Stanford University in 1976 and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1980. Following her graduation from Boalt, Echaveste specialized in corporate litigation at the former Los Angeles firm Wyman Bautzer and at Rosenman & Colin in New York.
From 1993 to 1997, Echaveste served as the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. In that role, she was responsible for the management and policy direction of programs related to a variety of Federal laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and federal contracting laws. Under her leadership, the Wage and Hour Division initiated an anti-sweatshop initiative, which received an Innovation in American Government Award from the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1996.
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