Leslie Norwalk has been chosen to serve as the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She will assume the acting administrator role effective Oct. 15, 2006, after Mark McClellan steps down from his post as administrator. McClellan resigned on Sept. 5.
For the past five years, Norwalk has served on the senior leadership team at CMS, currently serving as deputy administrator and having served as chief operating officer and acting director of the Centers for Beneficiary Choices. Prior to serving the Bush administration, she practiced law in the Washington, D.C., office of Epstein Becker & Green. She also served in the first Bush administration in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
