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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 (aged 80)
Education	Wellesley College (BA)

Katherine K. Wallman (died January 17, 2024) 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.

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 2004–05. 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 on January 17, 2024.

Works

• Wallman, Katherine K; Harris-Kojetin, Brian A; U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Implementing the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (PDF), retrieved 2013-12-05

See also

• List of presidents of the American Statistical Association

References

1. "ICPSR Mourns the Passing of Katherine K. Wallman". www.icpsr.umich.edu. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
2. ^ "Brief Bio: Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, U.S. Office of Management and Budget" (PDF), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, retrieved 2013-12-05
3. Wallman, Katherine K. "Statistical Programs of the United States Government" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
4. "Remembering Katherine Wallman". Census.gov. US Census Bureau.
5. View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-10-22.
6. "Katherine K. Wallman's biosketch". The Albany Chapter of The American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
7. "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
8. CIPSEA at 15 Years: Benefits to Federal Statistics—A Seminar in Honor of Katherine K. Wallman at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
9. "ICPSR Mourns the Passing of Katherine K. Wallman". ICPSR. January 31, 2024. Retrieved July 3, 2024.

Further reading

• Citro, Constance F.; Wallman, Katherine K. (2016). "A Conversation with Katherine K. Wallman". International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique. 84 (2): 210–223. doi:10.1111/insr.12153. ISSN 0306-7734. JSTOR 44162482. Retrieved 29 March 2024.

External links

• "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. Retrieved 2013-12-08.

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