Hillary Clinton Hires Bob Nash as Deputy Campaign Manager

March 19, 2007

Clinton Hires Deputy Campaign Manager

Sen. Hillary Clinton has tapped Bob Nash, a former Clinton administration official and currently the president of a pioneering community development bank, to be one of several deputy campaign managers.

It's unclear what Nash's portfolio will be. He's been informally helping the campaign contact and massage the egos of prominent African American political leaders, so he might manage the campaign's outreach to allies or perhaps its political operation.

Nash is the vice chair of ShoreBank Corp, which bills itself as the "country's first and largest community development bank." In the Clinton administration, he served as director for presidential personnel and prior to that, undersecretary of Agriculture. An Arkansan, Nash was a top aide to Gov. Bill Clinton in the 1980s.

Nash will report to manager Patti Solis Doyle.