Family: Married husband and former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1975. 1 daughter, Chelsea.
Parents: Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell
Siblings Two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony
Religion: Methodist
Drives a: Lexus LS460H
Education: – Graduated: Wellesley College (1969) - Major: Political Science – Law Degree from Yale (1973) - Major: J.D.
Career: – Attorney with Rose Law Firm (1979-1993) –U.S. Senator from Illinois, 2005-2008 –First Lady of Arkansas (1979-1981, 1983-1992) –First Lady of the United States (1993-2001) –U.S. Junior Senator from New York sworn in January 3, 2001 –67th United States Secretary of State sworn in January 15, 2009
Government Committees: –Committee on Budget (2001-2002) –Committee on Armed Services (2003-present) –Committee on Environment and Public Works (2001-present)
July 22, 2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that North Korea must completely end its nuclear weapons program, or face further isolation and sanctions from the U.N. Security Council. After consulting with China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, Clinton said there is a more positive way ahead if the North chooses. "We have made it very clear to the North Koreans that if they will agree to irreversible denuclearization that the United States, as well as our partners, will move forward on a package of incentives and opportunities.
..that will give the people of North Korea a better future," she told a news conference. Clinton said the international community is in a "strong position" in its push to change North Korean policy.
Senator, lawyer, former First Lady. Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago and raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a picturesque suburb located 15 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.
She was the eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. Hillary had two younger brothers, including Hugh, Jr. (born 1950) and Anthony (born 1954).
As a young woman, Hillary Rodham was active in young Republican groups and campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in 1964. She was inspired to work in some form of public service after hearing a speech in Chicago by the Reverend Martin Luther King and became a Democrat in 1968.
Rodham attended Wellesley College; she was active in student politics and was elected Senior Class president before she graduated in 1969. She then attended Yale Law School, where she met Bill Clinton. Graduating with honors in 1973, she also attended one post-graduate year of study on children and medicine at Yale Child Study Center.
Hillary worked at various jobs during her summers as a college student. In 1971, she first came to Washington, D.C to work on U.S. Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers. In the summer of 1972, she worked in the western states for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern.
In the spring of 1974, Rodham became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal. After President Richard M. Nixon resigned in August, she became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was teaching as well.
Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, at their home in Fayetteville. Before he proposed marriage, Clinton had secretly purchased a small house that she had remarked that she liked. When he proposed marriage to her and she accepted, he revealed that they owned the house. Their daughter, Chelsea Victoria, was born February 27, 1980.
In 1976, she worked on Jimmy Carter's successful campaign for president while husband Bill was elected Attorney General. He was elected governor in 1978 at age 32, lost re-election in 1980, but came back to win in 1982, 1984, 1986 (when the term of office was expanded from two to four years) and 1990.
Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock and in 1977 was appointed to part-time chairman of the Legal Services Corporation by President Carter. As First Lady of Arkansas for a dozen years (1979-1981, 1983-1992), she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services and the Children's Defense Fund. She also served on the boards of TCBY and Wal-Mart. In 1988 and 1991, The National Law Journal named her one of the 100 most powerful lawyers in America. During the 1992 presidential campaign, she emerged as a dynamic and valued partner of her husband, and as president he named her to head the Task Force on National Health Reform (1993).
This thread celebrates great women in history. Please add your favorites. Here is mine Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom, and later led more than 300 other slaves to the North and to Canada to their freedom, too. The best-known conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman was acquainted with many of the social reformers and abolitionists of her time, and she spoke against slavery and for women's rights.
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I wish I had known Harriet Tubman. I have always thought that photo of her is so beautiful! She looks like the strongest most principled person I have ever seen. I bet it would have been something to get to sit and talk with her and to have known her. She was quite something. Think how dangerous her work was!! How brave she had to be in a day and time when women were nothing at all legally and black women were property! My god! She is so fierce! XO...god bless her wherever she is now. Sometimes I think the spirit of all these women is watching us now...and with us, and with Hillary and others like her. I'd sure love to think of it that way.
Stephanie Tubb Jones - Member of the US House of Representatives. Stalwart Hillary Clinton supporter to the end. Stephanie Tubb Jones - September 10, 1949–August 20, 2008
Stephanie Tubb Jones (Answers.com)
legislator; judge; lawyer
Personal Information
Born Stephanie Tubbs in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 10, 1949, daughter of Mary (a homemaker, eventually a cook at a Case Western Reserve University fraternity house) and Andrew (a skycap for United Airlines); married Mervyn L. Jones in 1976; son Mervyn Jones born in 1983. Education: Graduate, Collinwood High School, Cleveland, OH, 1967; BA, Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Flora Stone Mather College, Cleveland, OH, 1971; JD, Case Western Reserve University, Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law, Cleveland, OH, 1974. Memberships: (Selected) Congressional Committees: Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittees on Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Housing and Community Development; Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Empowerment; Congressional Black Caucus; Baltic Caucus; Census Caucus; Women's Caucus; Member of the Bar: Supreme Court of the U.S., Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District of Ohio, Federal District Court; Supreme Court of Ohio; Member, National District Attorneys Association; Member, Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association; Member, American Bar Association; Member, Cleveland Bar Association; Member, National Council of Negro Women; Member, Board of Trustees, Community Re-Entry Program; Member, Board of Trustees, Bethany Baptist Church, Cleveland, OH; Member, Delta Sigma Theta Inc.
Career
Assistant General Counsel, Equal Opportunity Administrator, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Cleveland, OH, 1974-76; Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, Cleveland, OH, 1976-79; Trial Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Cleveland District Office, Cleveland, OH, 1979-81; Judge, Cleveland Municipal Court, Cleveland, OH, 1982-83; Judge, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Cleveland, OH, 1983-91; Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Cleveland, OH, 1991-99; U.S. Representative, 11th District, Ohio, 1999-.
Life's Work
Stephanie Tubbs Jones claims that when she was young, her mother described her as a quiet, rather introverted little girl, one who was content to play by herself with her dolls on the steps of her house. Her warm, engaging smile and dancing eyes, however, belie the confident, dynamic woman who easily commands an audience and has emerged to take the political scene in Cleveland, Ohio by storm, garnering 74% of the vote in her district in 1998 to win its Congressional seat and thrust her into the national political arena.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones was born on September 10, 1949 at Booth Memorial Hospital in Cleveland, OH. The third and youngest daughter of Mary and Andrew Tubbs. Tubbs Jones was raised in Cleveland's Glenville neighborhood, a stable area of predominantly working-class people which produced, according to Tubbs Jones, some of the best and the brightest working in the city today. Her home life, too, was solid and secure. While her father worked as a skycap for United Airlines, her mother, Mary, remained at home with Stephanie and her two older sisters, returning to work as a cook in a college fraternity house when Stephanie entered kindergarten. As Tubbs Jones reflected in an interview with CBB, "I had a great childhood, and I never wanted for anything. My parents were loving and nurturing and made me think that I could do anything. If I couldn't do it, I didn't know that I couldn't." To this day, Tubbs Jones explains that her mother is her mentor. As she explained to Tracy Bean of Kaleidoscope Magazine, "My mother is strong, determined, ever-faithful, and grounded in her faith ... One of the most valuable lessons I've learned [from her] is never forgetting that I am a woman ... I use [that] fact to my advantage and allow that fact to help me."
Planted Seeds of Social Activism
Tubbs Jones still fondly recalls her early years of education. From kindergarten through the sixth grade, she attended Miles Standish Elementary School and participated in its major works program, a program designed for gifted children. Thus, for instance, she began to study French in the third grade, a pursuit she continued into college. Tubbs Jones still vividly remembers the names of each of her first teachers, some of whom remain friends. Upon graduating from Miles Standish, Tubbs Jones entered Collinwood High School. There she excelled, earning ten academic and athletic awards during her graduation ceremony. Concurrently, she was active with Future Teachers of America, the girls' chorus, the school newspaper, Spotlight, and with the Student Council of Christian and Jews. Through this organization Tubbs Jones began to tackle issues of race relations in her school community, revealing a commitment to social justice which she has pursued ever since. Thus, even though racial disturbances plagued Collinwood and its surrounding neighborhoods during her high school years, at times forcing her and fellow African American students to be escorted out of school, such events did not dampen her overall high school experience but instead, energized her to act.
Tubbs Jones' activism continued during her college and law school years. As she recounted to CBB, she accepted a full scholarship to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland for several reasons: her father had told her that "blacks don't get to go to Case and so if you get in you should go there" , and also because she did not like the restrictive curfew at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA, which her older sister attended. While at CWRU she founded the African American Students Association and tirelessly campaigned for the acceptance of more minority students and the hiring of additional minority faculty while concurrently promulgating the idea of "relevant education" and school-to-work programs. She also strove to promote greater involvement by the university within the local community.
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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~Susan B. Anthony