Ron Sims Biography

Appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate Ron Sims served as the Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2009 to 2011. As the second most senior official at HUD Sims managed the day-to-day operations of an agency with 8500 employees and an operating budget of nearly $40 billion.
Prior to his appointment at HUD Sims served for 12 years as the elected Executive of Martin Luther King Jr. County in Washington State the 13th largest county in the nation with 1.8 million residents and 39 cities including the cities of Seattle Bellevue and Redmond.
As County Executive Sims was nationally recognized for his work on the integration of environmental social equity and public health policies that produced groundbreaking work on climate change health care reform affordable housing mass transit environmental protection land use and equity and social justice.
Sims was named Leader of the Year by American City and County Magazine in July 2008 and was recognized as one of Governing Magazine's Government Officials of the Year in 2007. He has been honored with national awards from the Sierra Club the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Sims joined Senator Edward Kennedy and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as recipients of the 2008 Health Quality Award from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

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