Background

Ethnicity: Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (1911–1993), was the son of Welsh and English immigrants; Her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell (1919–2011), was of English, Scottish, French, French Canadian, and Welsh descent.

Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She was raised in a United Methodist family, first in Chicago and then, from the age of three, in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois. Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was of Welsh and English descent; he managed a successful small business in the textile industry. Her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell, was a homemaker of English, Scottish, French, and Welsh descent. Hillary has two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony.

Education

As a child, Hillary Rodham was a teacher's favorite at her public schools in Park Ridge. She participated in sports such as swimming and baseball and earned numerous awards as a Brownie and Girl Scout. She attended Maine East High School, where she participated in student council, the school newspaper, and was selected for National Honor Society.

For her senior year, she was redistricted to Maine South High School, where she was a National Merit Finalist and graduated in the top five percent of her class of 1965.

In 1965, Rodham enrolled at Wellesley College, where she majored in political science.

Career

Attorney Children's Defense Fund, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, 1973-1974. Legal consultant Carnegie Council on Children, New Haven, 1973-1974. Counsel, impeachment inquiry staff United States House Judiciary Committee, Washington, 1974.

Assistant professor law, director Legal Aid Clinic University Arkansas School Law, Fayetteville, 1974-1977, assistant professor law Little Rock, 1979-1980. Partner Rose Law Firm, 1977-1992. First Lady of the United States, 1993—2001.

Chair Presidential Task Force on National Health Care Reform, 1993. United States Senator from New York, 2001—2009. Secretary United States Department State, Washington, since 2009.

Candidate for Democratic party nomination 2008 Presidential Election, 2007—2008.

Achievements

• Bar: Arkansas 1973, admitted to practice: United States District Court (Eastern District) Arkansas 1973, United States District Court (We. District) Arkansas 1973, United States Court Appeals (8th Circuit) 1973, United States Supreme Court 1975. Achievements include First First Lady elected to the United States Senate and the first woman elected statewide in New York.

Works

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  • It Takes A Village 1995
  • An Invitation To The White House 2000
  • Living History 2003

Religion

Through Jesus' death on the cross, and his resurrection, the power of evil in the world is broken.

Politics

There is a large range of issues where Church should interact with politics in such areas as poverty and inequality, environmental issues, nuclear and chemical weapons and the harm caused by use of drugs and drinking.

Views

Christians with different interpretations of the Bible should be engaged in discussions about the ways the Bible can be applied to major world issues.

Membership

Board directors Childrens Defense Fund, Washington, 1976-1992, chair, 1986-1991, Legal Services Corporation, Washington, 1977-1981, chair, 1978-1980. Founder, president, board directors Arkansas Advisers for Children and Families, 1977-1984. Board directors Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 1986-1992, TCBY, 1986-1992, Child Care Action Campaign, 1986-1992, National Center on Education and the Economy, 1987-1992, Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1988-1992, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, 1988-1992, Children's television Workshop, 1989-1992, Public/Private Ventures, 1990-1992.

Chairman Arkansas Education Standards Committee, 1983-1984. Member commission on quality education Southern Regional Education Board, 1984-1992. Chair American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, 1987-1991.

Former honorary president Girl Scouts of America. Member advisory board HIPPY, 1988-1992, board directors. Former honorary chair President' Committee on the Arts and Humanities, United States Delaware, United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995.

Honorary member The Pen and Brush, since 1996. Honorary chair, New York Academy Sciences Gala, 2005. Fellow: American Bar Foundation.

Member: American Bar Association (chair, commission on women in the profession), Association Trial Lawyers American, Pulaski County Bar Association, Arkansas Women Lawyers Association, Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, Arkansas Bar Association.

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  Chair of the commission of women in the profession.

  American Bar Association , United States

  1987 - 1991

• National Democratic Party , United States

• Arkansas Bar Association

Personality

Clinton has often been described in the popular media as a polarizing figure, with some arguing otherwise.

Clinton’s primary personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/self-serving and Dominant/controlling, with secondary Conscientious/dutiful features and subsidiary, more situation-specific, Contentious/resolute and Distrusting traits.

Physical Characteristics: 5' 6", blonde hair, blue eyes.

Quotes from others about the person

• Betty Friedan said, "Coverage of Hillary Clinton is a massive Rorschach test of the evolution of women in our society."

Interests

• Writers

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky's “The Brothers Karamazov”

• Sport & Clubs

  swimming

• Music & Bands

  Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, and Adele, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Doors, classical music

Connections

Married William J. Clinton, October 11, 1975. 1 child Chelsea Victoria.

Father:

Hugh Ellsworth Rodham

Mother:

Dorothy (Howell) Rodham

Spouse:

Bill Clinton

child:

Chelsea Clinton

References

• Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
  2017
• Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate
  2016
• Hillary the Other Woman
  2016
• Hillary Clinton: The Life of a Leader (Step into Reading)
  2016
• The Destruction of Hillary Clinton: Untangling the Political Forces, Media Culture, and Assault on Fact That Decided the 2016 Election
  2018
• Guilty as Sin: Uncovering New Evidence of Corruption and How Hillary Clinton and the Democrats Derailed the FBI Investigation
  2016