James M. Anderson served as the President

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 and Chief Executive Officer

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 at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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 from 1996 to 2009. He was also Chairman of the Board

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 of the Cincinnati

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 Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

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. In July 2005, Anderson was appointed to a national advisory commission on Medicaid

Medicaid

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 reform, while two years earlier, he was appointed to Ohio

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 Governor Bob Taft

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's Third Frontier

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 Advisory Board.

Anderson is a former mayor

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 of The Village of Indian Hill, Ohio, and is a graduate of Yale University

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 (1963) and Vanderbilt University Law School

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 (1966). He was a captain in the U.S. Army

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 (1966–1968) during the Vietnam War

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