What is Barbara Everitt Bryant?
{{Infobox officeholder |image = Barbara_Everitt_Bryant.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth-date|April 1926}} |birth_place = [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2023|03|03|1926|04|}} |death_place = | office = 18th [[Director of the United States Census Bureau|Director of the U.S. Census Bureau]] | president = [[George H. W. Bush]] | term_start = 1989 | term_end = 1993 | preceded = [[John G. Keane]] | succeeded = [[Martha Farnsworth Riche]] |party = |religion = |alma_mater = {{plainlist|1= *[[Cornell University]] *[[Michigan State University]]}} |spouse = |children = }} '''Barbara Everitt Bryant''' (April 1926 – March 3, 2023) was an American [[market research]]<nowiki/>er. She became the first woman to head the [[United States Census Bureau]]. She directed the bureau from 1989 to 1993.<ref name=post>{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/05/29/up-for-the-count-director-bryant-at-census-bureau/bf42db2b-7217-4a30-971c-da53349c07cf/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|first=Barbara|last=Vobejda|date=May 29, 1990|title=Up for the count: Director Bryant at Census Bureau}}</ref> She also directed the [[American Customer Satisfaction Index]]. Her husband died in 1997; they had three children: Linda, [[Randal Bryant|Randal]], and Lois, and eight grandchildren. Bryant died on March 3, 2023, at age 96.<ref>{{cite news |title=Barbara Bryant, the first woman to head the U.S. census, has died at 96 |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/03/03/1072057378/first-woman-census-bureau-director-barbara-bryant |access-date=3 March 2023 |publisher=NPR |date=3 March 2023}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bryant, Barbara Everitt}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2023 deaths]] [[Category:Market researchers]] [[Category:Politicians from Michigan]] [[Category:People from Ann Arbor, Michigan]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}