Hillary Rodham Clinton
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton stated, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service."
Hillary Diane Rodham, Dorothy and Hugh Rodham's first child, was born on October 26, 1947. Hillary's childhood in Park Ridge, Illinois, was happy and disciplined. She loved sports and her church, and was a member of the National Honor Society, and a student leader. Her parents encouraged her to study hard and to pursue any career that interested her. (It Takes A Village)
As an undergraduate at Wellesley College, Hillary excelled not only academically but also in school government. Speaking at graduation, she said, "The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
Hillary Clinton speaking at the North Carolina 200...
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Bill Clinton made health care reform one of the hi...In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, 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 Clinton.
After graduation, Hillary advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge and joined the impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. After completing those responsibilities, she went back to Arkansas, where Bill Clinton had begun his political career.
They were married in 1975. She joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the Rose Law Firm in 1976. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of the Legal Services Corporation, and Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas. Chelsea was born in 1980.
Hillary Clinton served as Arkansas's First Lady for 12 years, balancing her family, law, and public service. She chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards...