Katherine Wallman
Katherine K. Wallman was an American statistician who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017. In that role at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, she provided coordination, guidance, and oversight for the Federal Statistical System of the United States.
Katherine Wallman | |
|---|---|
| Chief Statistician of the United States | |
| In office November 1992 – January 3, 2017 | |
| President | George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Hermann Habermann |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Potok |
| Personal details | |
| Born | New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, 2024 |
| Education | Wellesley College (BA) |
She held a BA in sociology from Wellesley College.
In 1983 Wallman was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was the president of the American Statistical Association in 1992, and Chairwoman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2004-5. She has made several appearances on C-SPAN.
Wallman organized efforts to pass and implement the 2002 CIPSEA law which standardized confidentiality-protection and information-sharing by U.S. federal government statistical agencies.
She died in January, 2024.