Jeanette Takamura

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jeanette C. Takamura

| image =

| order = 2nd

| title = Assistant Secretary for Aging

| term_start = December 8, 1997

| term_end = August 8, 2001

| predecessor = Fernando Torres-Gil

| successor = Josefina Carbonell

| title2 = Deputy Director for Administration, Hawaii State Department of Health

| term_start2 = January 1995

| term_end2 = December 1996

| title3 = Director, Hawaii Executive Office on Aging

| term_start3 = January 1985

| term_end3 = December 1994

}}

Jeanette C. Takamura was the second Assistant Secretary for Aging at the Administration on Aging within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was appointed by President Clinton in 1997 and served in the position until 2001.{{cite web |title=Historical Evolution of Programs for Older Americans |url=http://www.aoa.gov/AoA_programs/OAA/resources/History.aspx |publisher=Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |access-date=February 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506132435/http://www.aoa.gov/AoA_programs/OAA/resources/History.aspx |archive-date=May 6, 2013}} Before that, she served as the Deputy Director for Administration of the Hawaii State Department of Health and the Director of the Executive Office on Aging within the State of Hawaii's Office of the Governor.{{cite web |title=NASW Social Work Pioneers: Jeanette C. Takamura |url=http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/t/takamura.html |publisher=National Association of Social Workers |access-date=February 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713094722/http://www.naswfoundation.org:80/pioneers/t/takamura.html |archive-date=July 13, 2018}} Takamura is a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work where she served as the dean from 2002 to 2016, the first woman to do so.{{cite web |title=Jeanette Takamura |url=https://socialwork.columbia.edu/content/jeanette-takamura |website=Columbia University School of Social Work |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=April 25, 2024}} She previously held the position of Edward R. Roybal Professor in Applied Gerontology and Public Service at California State University, Los Angeles.

Takamura is a third-generation Japanese American.{{cite web |title=Social Work Dean Jeanette Takamura: A Personal Account of Japan’s Resilience |url=https://www.myscience.org/news/wire/social_work_dean_jeanette_takamura_a_personal_account_of_japan_s_resilience-2011-columbia |website=myScience |date=March 15, 2011}} She is married to Hawaii politician Carl T. Takamura.{{cite news |last1=Pichaske |first1=Pete |title=White House award was a surprise for Hawaii's Takamura: She's one of the top island-born people in the Clinton administration |url=https://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/08/30/news/story6.html |access-date=April 25, 2024 |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |agency=Phillips News Service |date=August 30, 1999 |id={{ProQuest|412316813}}}} They have a daughter.

In 2009, Takamura was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon for "her contributions to the promotion of social welfare policies and programs and the status of Japanese Americans."{{cite news |newspaper=Nichi Bei Times |title=Government of Japan Honors Columbia Professor Takamura |url=https://www.nichibei.org/2009/12/government-of-japan-honors-columbia-professor-takamura/ |date=December 24, 2009}}