Beverly Louise Malone[1] (born 1948[2]) is the chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing in the United States.

Prior to assuming this position in February 2007 she served as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom for six years.

She was raised in Elizabethtown,[3][4]: 70  in rural Kentucky, in the segregated deep south of the United States[2] by her great-grandmother.

[Malone, 2007][4]: 74 [8] Clinton is said to have smoothed the way politically by "having a word" with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown[4]: 75  She was to remain in this post until January 2007.

[10] She was at first the subject of considerable media attention and some controversy, partly because of the novelty of an American holding such a political post in Britain, but also because of her generous remuneration package.

There was also criticism of her mother, Dorothy Black, receiving free eye surgery under the National Health Service soon after her arrival in spite of having paid no British taxes or insurance contributions.

[6] Though treated somewhat roughly by the British media, she welcomed the greater "visibility" of the nursing profession in Britain, compared with the United States.

[6] From February 2007[7] Malone was appointed chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing (NLN), which has a membership of over 40,000,[1] and she has held this post to the present.