"There are always more hard problems than there are good people to solve them," he said.

Academics & Public Service

Walter Broadnax, formerly deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton, is now professor of public policy at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Drew S. Days III, formerly solicitor general under President Clinton, is now professor at Yale University Law School. He served a previous stint as assistant attorney general for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Jimmy Carter.

Joycelyn Elders, M.D. Surgeon General under President Bill Clinton, is now at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Bonnie Guiton Hill, formerly Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, became dean of the School of Business at the University of Virginia and was just named president and chief executive officer of the Times/Mirror Foundation.

Augusta Kappner, who was assistant secretary at the Department of Education under President Clinton, returned to academe as president of Bank Street College of Education.

Catherine LeBlanc, formerly director of development at Clark Atlanta University's school of business, is now executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Condaleeza Rice, formerly director for Soviet and East European Affairs of the National Security Council under President George Bush, is now provost at Stanford University.

Louis Sullivan, M.D. former secretary of Health and Human Services under President George Bush, is now president of Morehouse School of Medicine.