The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Hazel O'Leary.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 59 min., 29 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.090
Subjects

Other author/creatorO'Leary, Hazel Rollins, 1937- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Hazel O'Leary
Portion of title Honorable Hazel O'Leary
Abstract University president and cabinet appointee Hazel Rollins O'Leary was born Hazel Reid on May 17, 1937 in Newport News, Virginia. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Fisk University in 1959. O'Leary went on to obtain her J.D. degree from Rutgers University Law School in 1966. From 1967 to 1969, O'Leary was assistant county prosecutor in Essex County, New Jersey. Later, she joined the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand as a partner. During President Carter's administration, O'Leary was an assistant administrator of the newly-created Department of Energy. In 1981, O'Leary and her husband formed O'Leary and Associates. From 1989 to 1993, she served as executive vice president of Northern States Power. Nominated by President Clinton in 1993, O'Leary became the seventh United States Secretary of Energy. In 1996, O'Leary joined Blaylock and Partners, becoming CEO in 2002. In 2004, she was named president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Nashville, Tennessee 2007 March 15.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2007.090 HistoryMakers