Virginia M. Apuzzo
Virginia M. Apuzzo has served in a number of government positions at the State and federal level. She served in the administration of Bill Clinton as Assistant to the President for Management and Administration, prior to which she was Associate Deputy Secretary in the United States Department of Labor, where she provided policy guidance and operating program direction to Assistant Secretaries and Office Directors on issues of national significance.
Before joining the federal government, Ms. Apuzzo was a Commissioner and President of the New York State Civil Service Commission, responsible for decision making affecting 189,000 State employees and 350,000 municipal employees, regarding titles, salary levels and minimum qualifications for classified service positions. Earlier, she had served as Executive Deputy Commissioner of the State Division of Housing and Community Renewal; Deputy Executive Director of the State Consumer Protection Board; Governor's Liaison to the Lesbian and Gay Community; Vice-Chair of the AIDS Advisory Council within the State Department of Health; Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Executive Director of the Fund for Human Dignity; Executive Director of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings for the City of New York; and Assistant Commissioner in the Office of Operations at the Department of Health for the City of New York.
She has been a Tenured Lecturer at the Brooklyn College School of Education. She received her B.S. from the State University of New York College of New Paltz and her M.S. in Urban Education from Fordham University.