Nancy Nord

Who is Nancy Nord?

Nancy Ann Nord is a commissioner of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. She was also the only Republican commissioner, until Anne Northup was nominated to serve alongside her in 2009. Nord is serving the remainder of a seven-year term that will expire October 26, 2012. The U.S. Senate confirmed her appointment by President George W. Bush on April 29, 2005; she was sworn into office on May 5. From July 2006 until June 2009, Nord served as acting chairman of the agency. She was replaced as acting chair by Thomas Hill Moore, a Democrat and the only other active commissioner at the time.

Before joining CPSC, Nord was the Director of Federal Government Relations for the Eastman Kodak Company. In her career she also has been general counsel to the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House, an attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, and Republican Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee, specializing in product liability and consumer protection legislation. As well as this, she was a lawyer with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand and the executive director of the American Corporate Counsel Association. In 2006 and 2007 Nord served as president of Executive Women in Government, a nonprofit organization for senior women government leaders. Nord has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and a law degree from George Washington University. She was born and raised in South Dakota. She is married to the Honorable James S. Halpern, a judge on the United States Tax Court.