Background
Her father, Stasys Nutautas, was a businessman. Her mother, Ona Soblytė-Nutautienė, assisted her husband in various commercial activities.
Her father, Stasys Nutautas, was a businessman. Her mother, Ona Soblytė-Nutautienė, assisted her husband in various commercial activities.
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
She also holds United States citizenship. In 1944, when the Soviet Army returned to Lithuania, Alma Nutautaitė fled with her family to the West. She finished high school in Germany, and later studied Philology at Erlangen University in Nuremberg.
Alma Nutautaitė emigrated to the United States of America in 1949.
She first worked as a laboratory assistant at a steel factory. Later, she took a position with an insurance company.
She also organized and participated in Lithuanian émigré activities. Alma Nutautaitė married Valdas Adamkus in 1951, and took her husband"s surname (she is known as Alma Adamkus in the United States).
After Adamkus became President, Adamkienė became involved in various Lithuanian social programs focusing on the welfare of children.