Person

Alexis Herman

Alexis Herman from DOL website (link)
Nationality:

American

Born:

July 16, 1947 in Mobile, Alabama

Political Party:

Democratic Party

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Alexis Herman is a Democratic Party operative and former United States Secretary of Labor in the Bill Clinton administration. She held multiple positions in the Clinton and Carter administrations, and has taken senior roles with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and other Democratic political efforts. Since leaving government, Herman has also sat on the board of numerous major companies.

Early Life

Alexis Herman was born on July 16, 1947 in Mobile, Alabama. While schools were segregated in Mobile growing up, Herman was sent to a racially-mixed Catholic school. She graduated from Heart of Mary Catholic High School in 1965. She first attended college at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin and then transferred to Spring Hill College in Mobile. She once again transferred colleges, this time to Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana where she settled in and graduated with a BA in Sociology in 1969.16 She is also currently represented by the Washington Speakers Bureau. 0){ let parent=divs[divs.length-1].parentNode; let footer=divs[divs.length-1]; delete divs[divs.length-1]; for (let i=2; i