Julia V. Taft

Julia Ann Vadala Taft (; July 27, 1942 – March 15, 2008) was a United States official who was involved in international humanitarian assistance, and who served as Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1986 to 1989, and as Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration from 1997 to 2001. evacuees from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam after the fall of Saigon.

Taft would spend the next three decades designing and developing refugee programs for the United States Department of State, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the United States Agency for International Development, and the United Nations.

In 1997, U.S. president Bill Clinton nominated Taft to be Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, and she subsequently held this office from November 10, 1997, to January 19, 2001. William Howard Taft V Maria Taft Julia Taft

Taft died of colon cancer at her Washington, D.C. home.