Tierre Jeanné-Porter is the newly appointed Vice President for Employee Development and Labor Relations.Formerly the Vice President for Planning, Quality & Compliance at IPRO, a not-for-profit health care corporation, Ms. Jeanné-Porter monitored organizational compliance with federal/state regulatory requirements, led company-wide strategic planning initiatives and championed continuous quality improvement. Her active involvement and expertise in compliance matters led to her appointment, by the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, to a statewide Data Protection Review Board, which reviews requests to use protected health care information. Additionally, under her leadership, IPRO’s Performance Management System was certified to the international ISO 9001:2000 quality standards and received a New York Empire State Advantage Silver Award in 2007.

Ms. Jeanné-Porter also served as the Deputy Regional Administrator for the New York-based office of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration). During her tenure at the federal health care agency, she co-founded the local Labor-Management Partnership Council to mediate labor relations disputes and also helped to develop a national Alternative Dispute Resolution pilot program. Ms. Jeanné-Porter collaborated with the Office of Civil Rights to design a training course to educate staff about regulatory requirements for recipients of federal financial assistance.

During a 10-year stint at the Region II office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ms. Jeanné-Porter helped to establish multi-million dollar State Revolving Loan Fund programs in New York, New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. As head of a $500 million Grants, Contracts & Audit operation, she co-chaired a national regulatory workgroup that developed fast-track operational guidance for the multi-million dollar Performance Partnership Grant program. Additionally, in her role as the Deputy Director of Enforcement & Compliance Assistance, she led the implementation of a pilot Environmental Justice course to train attorneys and engineers in the use of legal mechanisms, census data and cultural diversity principles to involve communities in case settlements.

Ms. Jeanné-Porter holds a Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Michigan University. She has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1988 and is also admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts as well as the United States Supreme Court. In 2006, she received recognition from the New York State Bar Association for providing pro bono legal services to the poor under the Empire State Counsel program. Ms. Jeanné-Porter is also a member of the following organizations: American Health Lawyers Association; Nassau County Bar Association; New York State Bar Association; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Nassau Alumnae Chapter; National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Long Island Chapter and the Harvard University JFK School of Government’s Women & Power Leadership Alumnae Group.