Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he has nominated Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon as commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Delphin-Rittmon is deputy commissioner and has been serving as acting commissioner since Patricia Rehmer departed last month to take a job with Hartford Healthcare.
Delphin-Rittmon completed a two-year White House appointment last year as senior advisor to the administrator of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
She has also worked as an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine’s psychiatry department, where she completed her postdoctoral fellowship after earning a doctorate in psychology from Purdue University.
