Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois as Hillary Diane Rodham) is the junior United States Senator from New York, serving her freshman term since January 3, 2001. She was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton.

Lawyer and First Lady of Arkansas

In 1969, Rodham entered Yale Law School where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Review of Law and Social Action and worked with underprivileged children at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. During the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the summer of 1971, she traveled to Washington, D.C. to work on Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education. For the summer of 1972, Rodham worked in the western states for the Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's campaign. During her second year in law school, she volunteered at the Yale Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development. She also took on cases of child abuse at New Haven Hospital and worked at the city Legal Services, providing free legal service to the poor. She received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale in 1973, having written her widely recognized thesis on the rights of children http://www.hillary-rodham-clinton.org/education.html, and began a year of post-graduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.

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1969 - Yale Law School - Yale Review of Law and Social Action - Yale-New Haven Hospital - Summer - 1970 - Grant - Children's Defense Fund - Cambridge - Massachusetts - 1971 - Washington, D.C. - Walter Mondale - Migrant - Housing - Sanitation - Health - Education - 1972 - George McGovern - Yale Child Study Center - Brain - Child abuse - 1973 - Children - Medicine

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During this time, Rodham also served as staff attorney for the Children?s Defense Fund. She joined the presidential impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal. After President Nixon resigned in August of 1974, Rodham became a faculty member (one of only two women in the faculty) at the University of Arkansas Law School, located in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was teaching as well.

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Judiciary Committee - United States House of Representatives - Watergate Scandal - President Nixon - 1974 - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville - Bill Clinton

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In 1975 Rodham and Clinton were married and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, Bill Clinton's childhood home. In 1976, Hillary Rodham joined the venerable and influential Rose Law Firm, specializing in intellectual property cases while doing child advocacy cases pro bono. In 1979, she became the first woman to be made a full partner of Rose Law Firm http://www.edwardsly.com/clinton.htm. President Jimmy Carter appointed Rodham to the board of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978.

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1975 - Little Rock - Arkansas - 1976 - Rose Law Firm - Intellectual property - Pro bono - 1979 - Partner - President Jimmy Carter - Legal Services Corporation - 1978

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In 1978, with the election of her husband as governor of Arkansas, Rodham became Arkansas's first lady, her title for 12 years. On February 27, 1980, Rodham gave birth to Chelsea, their only child.

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1978 - Governor - Arkansas - 1980 - Chelsea

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In 1980, Bill Clinton was defeated in his re-election bid for governor and the couple left the statehouse. In February 1982, Bill Clinton announced his bid to regain the office, which would be successful; at the same time, Rodham began using the name Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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1980 - 1982

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As first lady, Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, where she successfully fought (against some opposition) for improved testing standards of new teachers http://www.oldstatehouse.com/educational_programs/classroom/arkansas_news/detail.asp?id=528&issue_id=29&page=1. She also chaired the Rural Health Advisory Committee and introduced a pioneering program called Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, which trains parents to work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy. Clinton was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984 http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/civics/presid/flgall/flclinto.htm.

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Literacy - 1983 - 1984

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Throughout her time as first lady, Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm. In 1988 and 1991 National Law Journal named Clinton one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Clinton_Hillary_Diane_Rodham.html. Clinton 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 http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hc42.html.

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1988 - 1991 - National Law Journal - Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families - Arkansas Children's Hospital - Children's Defense Fund

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From 1985 to 1992, Clinton served on the Board of Directors for both TCBY ("The Country's Best Yogurt") and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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1985 - 1992 - TCBY ("The Country's Best Yogurt") - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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