In 1978, she joined the board of the CDF, chairing that board from 1986 to 1989.ĭuring her tenure as Arkansas’s first lady, Clinton 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.Īs the first lady of the United States, Clinton chaired the Task Force on National Health Care Reform during an unsuccessful campaign to reform the U.S. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of Legal Services Corporation, and she founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. In 1976, she joined the Rose Law Firm and was named their first female partner in 1979. In 1975, she married Bill Clinton and accepted a teaching position at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

In 1974, she joined the impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate impeachment inquiry. She earned her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action, interned with children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman, and met Bill ClintonĪfter law school, Clinton served as staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund. She caught national attention at her college graduation as the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. She graduated with departmental honors from Wellesley College in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in political science. first lady to hold elective office and to serve in a cabinet role.Ĭlinton was born October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She served as United States secretary of state from January 2009 to February, 2013, United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 19 to 1992.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president of the United States, the first women to be nominated for U.S.

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