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1994.05.09 : Shalala Announces Appointment of Region II Director

Contact: HHS Press Office
Monday, May 9, 1994                           (202) 690-6343


     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala has announced the selection of
Alison E. Greene, a lawyer from White Plains, N.Y., as regional
director for Region II of the Department of Health and Human
Services.

     Ms. Greene, 43, will be Secretary Shalala's representative in
coordinating the administration and implementation of departmental
policies throughout the region, including intergovernmental affairs
at the state, county and municipal levels.  She will serve as a
liaison with the public, interest groups, governors, mayors and
other local officials with whom HHS deals.

     Region II, with headquarters in New York City, serves New York,
New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

     Since 1985, Ms. Greene has practiced law in White Plains,
focusing on Social Security disability law and appeals, workers'
compensation law and disability retirement and employment
discrimination.  She has also served since 1990 as attorney in
charge of the civil division of the Legal Aid Society of Westchester
County, New York, representing indigent clients in matrimonial and
family practice matters. 

     She has been admitted to practice by federal, state and local
bars in New York and Washington, D.C.

     Previously, Ms. Greene was legislative liaison and public
affairs director for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation in 
Washington and served on the Congressional staff of Representative
George Miller, D-Calif.

     Ms. Greene was born in Cornwall, N.Y.  She received her
bachelor's degree in political science from George Washington
University in 1971 and her law degree from the New York Law School
in 1978.  She did undergraduate study at Goucher College in Maryland
and at the City of London College in England.

     Long active in local and national Democratic politics, she
became chair of the White Plains Democratic City Committee in 1990
and was co-chair of the Clinton/Gore presidential campaign in
Westchester County.

     Her professional and community activities include: serving as a
trustee of the Supreme Court Library, 9th Judicial District, White
Plains, since her appointment in 1991 by Governor Mario Cuomo; board
member of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Westchester
Section; and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southern New
York Chapter.

     Ms. Greene is married to Oren J. Teicher and has three
children: Carrie, Jessica and Zachary.

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