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Previous Director Martha Farnsworth Riche
Previous Director Martha Farnsworth Riche
U.S. Census Bureau Director: 1994-1998
A native of Ann Arbor, Martha Riche received a B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan. She earned a Ph.D. in literature and linguistics from Georgetown University in 1961, and then worked as an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In 1978, Riche left the federal government to become a founding editor of American Demographics magazine.
In 1991, Riche became director of policy studies for the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit organization founded to disseminate demographic information and inform the public about the demographic component of policy issues. From there, President Bill Clinton appointed her director of the Census Bureau. Resigning in 1998, she is currently a principal at her own research and consulting firm and is an associate research professor at the University of Maryland. Riche participated in the Census Bureau's oral history program.
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