Rhonda Schwartz
Rhonda Schwartz has served as a Regional Administrator for the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, since 2019 and currently acts as the Regional Administrator for Region II, which includes New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. As Regional Administrator, Rhonda is the representative for the ACL Administrator/Assistant Secretary for Aging at the regional level. Rhonda joined ACL in July 2016 as an Aging Services Program Specialist in ACL’s Region I office located in Boston, Massachusetts. In that capacity, she worked with federal, state, and tribal organizations, with particular attention to oversight of the Older Americans Act (OAA) state and tribal grant programs. Prior to joining ACL, she spent several years managing OAA and other ACL programs at a state unit on aging. Rhonda earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Georgetown University in 1985 and a J.D. from Columbia University in 1988. Following award of her J.D., she joined a law firm in Manhattan, NY, where she focused on commercial real estate transactions. Rhonda left her law practice in 2004 to pursue a Master of Social Work degree, which she received from Rhode Island College in 2006.
