The lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

The lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - A graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, Hillary Clinton served on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee considering the impeachment of Richard Nixon. After moving to Arkansas, she ran a legal aid clinic for the poor and was appointed by President Carter to the board of the United States Legal Services Corporation. She led a task force to improve education in Arkansas and served on national boards for the Children's Defense Fund, the Child Care Action Campaign, and the Children's Television Workshop. Continuing her legal career as a partner in a law firm, she led the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession. She was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She served on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Senate Armed Services Committee. She also chaired the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, responsible for communicating with the public about key issues before Congress. The wife of former President Bill Clinton, she is the only First Lady of the United States ever elected to public office. Clinton was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, losing to Senator Barack Obama. President Obama appointed Clinton to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, a position she held from 2009 - 2013. In April 2015, she announced her candidacy for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.