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Appointed by President Bill Clinton, she served at the Food and Drug Administration between 1998 and 2001.
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Jane Ellen Henney
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Jane Henney was born in Woodburn, Indiana. She received her undergraduate training at Manchester University, an Doctor of Medicine degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and did postgraduate work at the University of Texas Doctor of Medicine Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Trained as a medical oncologist, she joined the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in 1976, working in the Cancer Therapy and Evaluation Program.
Prior to her appointment as commissioner, Henney had worked at the Food and Drug Administration from 1992 to 1994 as deputy commissioner for operations under then commissioner David Aaron Kessler, and then at the University of New Mexico, where she was vice president of the health sciences center.
After leaving the Food and Drug Administration she joined the board of directors of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. She was named senior vice president and provost for health affairs at the University of Cincinnati in 2003.
