Barbara Davis Blum (born July 6, 1939) is an American businesswoman, public health administrator, and environmental advocate who served as the Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency from 1977 to 1981.
[6] Blum was a faculty member at the Pediatric Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
From 1963 to 1964, she served as acting administrator of the Suffolk County Mental Health Clinic in Huntington, New York.
She was also part of the EPA's 1978 recall of American Motors Corporation vehicles because of faulty exhaust systems that permit nitrogen oxide to escape into the air.
The recall affected 270,000 Hornets, Gremlins, Pacers and Matadors, as well as 40,000 Jeeps and postal delivery trucks.