Background
Clark, Harriett Wedgeworth Daughter of Harry Joe and Ida Mae (Mason) Wedgeworth.
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Harriett Wedgeworth Clark
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Bachelor, Fisk U., 1961; Juris Doctor, Howard U., 1964.
Career
Attorney, Office of Solicitor, United States, Los Angeles, 1964-1969;
senior trial attorney, Department Labor, San Francisco, 1971-1975;
counsel, senior counsel, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, 1975-1994;
vice president, assistant general counsel, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, 1994-1998;
principal, Clark and Associations, Oakland, California, since 1998. Vice president California Board RNs, Sacramento, 1991-1993, president, 1994-1996. President WileyManuel Law Foundation.
Board directors, since 1995. Advocate, educator, consultant on health and managed care in the United States and abroad. Member task force on multicultural health California Department Health, Labor, and Employment.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Bay Area Black United Fund, Oakland, 1995, Bay Area Black Health Consortium for Quality Care, Citizens Advocacy Center, Commision on Foreign Graduate Nurses. Trustee Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, Texas, Salvation Army, Alameda County, California. Member National Bar Association (chair health law section, governor board), Minority Corporation Counsel Association (president since 1997, Pioneer of the Legal Profession 1996), Delta Sigma Theta (Female Executive of Year 1994).
Connections
Married Ernest Clark Junior, April 15, 1967. Children: Melanie Cheron Clark Sowell, Maya Alia.
