Alice Mitchell Rivlin [4 Mar 1931 – 14 May 2019] is the only person to have served as director of both the congressional and executive budget offices. She was OMB director (1994-1996) after serving as the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office (1975-1983) and deputy director of the DHHS (1968-1969). Rivlin received her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College (1952) and after a year in Europe working on the Marshall Plan, earned a Ph.D. in economics from Radcliffe College of Harvard University (1958). Rivlin finished her dissertation while at the Brookings Institution and spent much of her career alternating between Brookings and various federal policy jobs. Her influential book, Systematic Thinking for Social Action (1971) accelerated a career including election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973). AABPA recognized her with its Blum Award (1992). She taught as a visiting member of the faculty at the Kennedy School at Harvard and at George Mason University. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve (1996-1999) and chair of the District of Columbia Financial Control Board (1998-2001).