Sallyanne Payton

Sallyanne Payton (born in Los Angeles) is an American lawyer.

Payton was born and raised in Los Angeles, California,[1] to an insurance underwriter and schoolteacher.

[4] With her newly obtained law degree, Payton was hired at the law firm Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.[5] While there, she caught the attention of President Richard Nixon who hired her to sit on the White House Domestic Council staff in 1971.

[5] In 1976, Payton and Christina B. Whitman were hired full-time at the University of Michigan Law School.

[10] Two years later, she was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance[11] and a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Payton at left, with female Nixon administration staff and high-level appointees: Ethel Bent Walsh , Brigadier General Jeanne M. Holm , Rose Mary Woods , Virginia Knauer , Helen Delich Bentley , Jayne Baker Spain , Evelyn Eppley , Barbara H. Franklin ; (second row): Sallyanne Payton, Elizabeth Hanford , Georgiana Sheldon , Virginia Allan , Carol Khosrovi , Paula Tennant , Brereton Sturtevant , Gloria Toote .
Nixon with Vicki Keller, Jayne Spain , Barbara Franklin, Payton, and Dr. Valerija Raulinaitis