page_title: Cheryl L. Shavers
section_title: Government office
hierarchical_section_title: Cheryl L. Shavers / Government office
caption_attribution_description: English: Ground breaking of the Advanced Measurement Laboratories of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). From left to right, NIST Director Raymond Kammer, Montgomery County Executive Douglas Duncan, Senator Paul Sarbanes, Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley, Senator Barbara Mikulski, and Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers.
context_page_description: Cheryl L. Shavers is an American chemist, engineer, and businesswoman. After gaining a degree in chemistry, she worked as an engineer at Motorola. Shavers returned to university for a few years, gaining a PhD in solid state chemistry, before returning to private industry. Shavers worked at increasingly senior levels in Silicon Valley, at Hewlett Packard and Intel. She served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration, and is a registered patent agent in the US Patent and Trademark Office. After leaving government service in 2001, she established a consultancy and strategy business, Global Smarts Inc. Shavers was inducted into the Women In Technology International Hall of Fame and the Hall of Fame of the Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
context_section_description: Shavers was confirmed by the US Senate as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in 1999, serving till 2001.
  The role of the Under Secretary included overseeing the Commerce Department's Technology Administration (TA) and the Office of Technology Policy (OTP), as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and the Office of Space Commercialization.
  As well as providing advice and participating in policy development, she worked on encryption standards and digital signatures to support the development of web commerce during her tenure.
  In her capacity as Under Secretary, Shavers also represented the Department of Commerce in a variety of science and technology forums, including serving as Co-Chair of the Technology Subcommittee under the U.S.-Egypt Partnership for Economic Growth.
caption: Senator Barbara Mikulski and Dr Cheryl L Shavers, groundbreaking ceremony at NIST in 2000
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