LaQuandra S. Nesbitt is an American family physician who is the former Washington, D.C. Department of Health Director She was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2015.
Prior to her tenure in DC, Nesbitt was Director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public health and Wellness.
[1] At the University of Michigan, Nesbitt earned her undergraduate degree in biochemistry before getting her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and a MPH with a concentration in Health Care Management and Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health.
While there, Governor Steve Beshear appointed her to a four-year term on the Early Childhood Advisory Council.
[1] Nesbitt was one of the parties sued by Dede Byrne and the Thomas More Society for being denied a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers.