Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Nina M. Wells
Nina M. Wells
|
|---|
| Other authors / contributors: | Wells, Nina Mitchell, 1950- interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Feldman, Isaac, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
|
|---|
| Sound characteristics: | digital
|
|---|
| Digital file characteristics: | video file
|
|---|
| Notes: | Videographer, Isaac Feldman.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2014 September 11.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
|
|---|
| Summary: | Lawyer and government administrator Nina Mitchell Wells was born September 9, 1950 in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. degree in 1972 from Newton College of the Sacred Heart and her J.D. degree in 1976 from Suffolk University Law School. Wells began her legal career as the assistant corporate counsel for the City of Newark. In 1990, she served as head of the Division of Rate Counsel in the Department of the Public Advocate until 1994. She then held the position of vice president and senior attorney at CIT Group from 1994 to 1996. In 1998, she became the vice president of public affairs for Schering-Plough Corporation and the president of its foundation until 2004. In 2006, Wells was named Secretary of State for New Jersey and served in that position until 2010. She was appointed to the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority by President Barack Obama in 2013.
|
|---|
