Carmen Hooker Odom is the former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
As a lawmaker, she was the primary legislative author of both the 1991 Massachusetts comprehensive health reform legislation and the Children's Medical Security Plan, which targeted young children not covered by medical insurance.
In May 2007, Odom announced that she would resign as Secretary to become president of the Milbank Memorial Fund.
[1] Prior to her appointment as head of the large state bureaucracy, she served as Vice President of Government Relations for Quintiles Transnational Corporation in Research Triangle Park.
Odom served as the Group Vice President for Carolinas Healthcare System, now Atrium Health.