death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title education name
austin , texas 27 march 2015 newark , new jersey 11 december 1923 janet l. norwood
 ll.d university , harvard university , and florida international university ph.d. . , m.a. fletcher school of law and diplomacy b.a. douglass -lrb- college '' honorary '' -rrb- carnegie mellon janet l. norwood
janet l. norwood

janet lippe norwood -lrb- december 11 , 1923 -- march 27 , 2015 -rrb- was an american statistician and the first female commissioner of the u.s. bureau of labor statistics -lrb- bls -rrb- when she was appointed in 1979 by president jimmy carter .
she was reappointed twice by president reagan .
she left the bureau in 1991 and joined the urban institute as a senior fellow , a position she held until 1999 .
she was also appointed as the chair of the advisory council on unemployment compensation , first by president george h. w. bush in 1993 and then re-elected by president bill clinton .
she stepped down from that position in 1996 .
she received numerous awards including several honorary doctorate degrees from academic institutions , including harvard university .
