Medical Child Support Working Group
Members and Staff

Membership List

U.S. Department of Labor:

• Robert J. Doyle, Director of Regulations and Interpretations, Pension and Welfare Benefits Association, Co-Chair
• David Lurie, Office of Regulations and Interpretations, Pension and Welfare Benefits Association
• Susan E. Rees, Staff Attorney, Plan Benefits Security Division, Office of the Solicitor

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

• David Gray Ross, Commissioner, Office of Child Support Enforcement, Co-Chair
• Paul Legler, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Child Support Enforcement
• Rachel Block, Deputy Director, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, Health Care Financing Administration
• Linda Mellgren, Senior Social Science Analyst, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

State IV-D Directors and Medical Child Support Programs:

• Sallie H. Hunt, Commissioner, Bureau of Child Support Enforcement, Health and Human Resources, West Virginia
• Richard Harris, Director, Division of Child Support Enforcement, Department of Human Services, Mississippi
• Lee Sapienza, Chief of Policy and Planning, Division of Child Support Enforcement, New York
• Gaye L. McQueen, Child Support Enforcement Officer, Department of Social and Health Services, Washington

State Medicaid/SCHIP Directors:

• Mary C. Fontaine, Director, Benefit Coordination & Recoveries, Medicaid, Massachusetts
• Kay M. Keeshan, Director, Third Party Division, Medicaid, Alabama
• Robert D. Stampfly, Director, Managed Care Support Division, Medical Services Administration, Michigan

Employers and Human Resource and Payroll Professionals:

• Anthony J. Knettel, The ERISA Industry Committee
• Cornelia Gamlem, Society for Human Resource Management
• Rita Zeidner, American Payroll Association
• Theodore R. Earl, Jr., John Hancock, Inc.

Plan Administrators and Plan Sponsors of Group Health Plans:

• Elizabeth Ysla Leight, Society of Professional Benefit Administrators
• Howard Bard, National Coordinating Committee for Multi-Employer Plans
• Terry Humo, Association of Private Pension & Welfare Plans
• Lela Foremen, Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO
• Ellen (Nell) Hennessy, Actuarial Sciences Associates, Inc/American Bar Association

Child Advocacy Organizations:

• Nancy E. Ebb, Children's Defense Fund
• Paula Roberts, Center for Law and Social Policy
• R. Ann Fallon, Attorney at Law, Whiting, Fallon & Ross
• S. Kay Farley, National Center for State Courts
• Jeffrey M. Johnson, Ph.D., National Center for Strategic Non-Profit Planning & Community Leadership
• Cristina B. Firvida, National Women's Law Center

Organizations Representing State Child Support Programs:

• Kelly D. Thompson, National Child Support Enforcement Association — resigned
• Ruth Bell Clark, National Child Support Enforcement Association

Working Group Staff

Samara Weinstein, Executive Director

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Office of Child Support Enforcement

• Beverly Bunn
• Andrew J. Hagan
• Stephanie Epps
• Susan Notar
• Nehemiah Rucker

Health Care Financing Administration

• Marlene Jones
• Sue Knefley

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget

• Libbie Buchele
• Audrey Smolkin
• Caroline Washburn

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

• Jennifer C. Pruszynski
• Jennifer Tolbert

U.S. Department of Labor

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration

• Fred Wong
• Ellen Goodwin

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