Faith Wohl

Faith Wohl became President of the Child Care Action Campaign in December 1997. Previously she was a political appointee in the Clinton Administration, most recently on staff at the National Performance Review (NPR), where her assignment was to accelerate the use of "family-friendly" policies in the Federal workplace. She also worked on more affordable childcare for low-income workers, as part of the President’s welfare-to-work initiative.

She was on loan to NPR from her position as Director of the Office of Workplace Initiatives at the U.S. General Services Administration, a job she held since January 1994. In that role, she oversaw policy and development of worksite childcare centers (now 108 centers in 71 cities and 31 states) and telecommuting centers for Federal employees.

Wohl came to the Federal government from the DuPont Company where she had served as a director of human resources, pioneering the company’s initiative to help employees balance their family lives and careers. She also took responsibility for many of the company’s efforts to improve its workplaces for women and minorities, from such programs as sexual harassment and rape prevention, and diversity training to affirmative action and upward mobility. As one of the company’s first women in senior management, she was its spokesperson on women and family issues to the community and the national media, and an advocate and resource to women at all levels in the corporation.

Wohl was with DuPont for more than twenty years, serving in successive management roles as Director of Corporate Communications, Corporate Affairs, and Community Affairs; and earlier, as Public Affairs Manager for the company’s largest business, Textile Fibers. For many years she played a similar role with the Employee Relations Department, supporting public issues as diverse as labor relations and occupational safety and health and overseeing the company’s employee communications programs.

In addition to her career at DuPont, Wohl’s experience in the business world has included an assignment as communications manager for a publisher of trade magazines and catalogs, where she headed up advertising, sales promotion and public relations. Previously, she had been co-owner, with her husband, of a small specialty publishing company that produced yearbooks for colleges and naval units.

Wohl received her degree in economics from Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y. where she graduated summa cum laude in 1957. A resident of Delaware, she has three children and eight grandchildren.