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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and became the first female partner at Yale Law School and postgraduate studies 11, 1975, in a Methodist ceremony in their
(née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm the following Rodham then entered Yale Law School, where living room. November 1976, Bill Clinton was
American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, year. The National Law Journal twice listed she was on the editorial board of the Yale Review elected Arkansas attorney general, and the
and public speaker who served as the 67th United her as one of the hundred most of Law and Social Action. During her second year, couple moved to the state capital of Little
States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 (She influential lawyers in America. she worked at the Yale Child Study Center, Rock. In February 1977, Rodham joined the
became the first former first lady to be a member Clinton was the first lady of Arkansas learning about new research on early childhood venerable Rose Law Firm, a bastion of Arkansan
of the United States Cabinet), as a United States from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to brain development and working as a research political and economic influence. She specialized
senator from New York (1 female Senator in 1992. As First Lady of the United States, assistant on the seminal work, Beyond the Best in patent infringement and intellectual property
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New York) from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady Clinton advocated for healthcare reform. In Interests of the Child (1973). She also took on law while working pro bono in child advocacy;
of the United States from 1993 to 2001. 1994, her major initiative—the Clinton health cases of child abuse at Yale–New Haven Hospital, she rarely performed litigation work in court.
Clinton became the first woman to be care plan—failed to gain approval from and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to Rodham maintained her interest in children’s
nominated for president of the United Congress. In 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a provide free legal advice for the poor. In the law and family policy, publishing the scholarly
States by a major political party when she leading role in advocating the creation of summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work articles “Children’s Policies: Abandonment and
won the Democratic Party nomination the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, at Marian Wright Edelman’s Washington Research Neglect” in 1977 and “Children’s Rights: A
in 2016. the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Legal Perspective” in 1979. The latter
She was the first woman to win the popular the Foster Care Independence Act. Mondale’s Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. continued her argument that children’s legal
vote in an American presidential election, which Clinton advocated for gender equality at There she researched various migrant workers’ competence depended upon their age and other
she lost to Donald Trump, due to the electoral the 1995 UN conference on women. issues including education, health and housing. circumstances and that in serious medical rights
process. She had 2.8 million more popular votes, Rodham’s early political development was Edelman later became a significant mentor. cases, judicial intervention was sometimes
however, only had 232 electoral votes versus shaped mostly by her high school history Rodham was recruited by political advisor Anne warranted. An American Bar Association chair
Trump’s 306. Interestingly, at that time, she was teacher (like her father, a fervent anti- Wexler to work on the 1970 campaign of later said, “Her articles were important, not
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the 5 candidate that won the popular vote and communist), who introduced her to Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Duffey. because they were radically new but because they
lost the election to the electoral vote. Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Rodham later credited Wexler with providing her helped formulate something that had been
Over a hundred books and scholarly works Conservative and by her Methodist youth first job in politics. inchoate.” Historian Garry Wills would later
have been written about Clinton. Clinton has also minister (like her mother, concerned with In the spring of 1971, she began dating fellow describe her as “one of the more important
been featured in the media and popular culture in issues of social justice), with whom she saw and law student Bill Clinton. During the summer, she scholar-activists of the last two decades”.
a wide spectrum of perspectives. afterwards briefly met, civil interned at the Oakland, California, law firm In 1977, President Jimmy Carter (for whom
A 2006 survey by the New York Observer found rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. at a 1962 of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. She received Rodham had been the 1976 campaign director
“a virtual cottage industry” of “anti-Clinton speech in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973, having of field operations in Indiana) appointed her to
literature” put out by Regnery Publishing and Wellesley College years stayed on an extra year to be with Clinton. He the board of directors of the Legal Services
other conservative imprints. Books praising In 1965, Rodham enrolled at Wellesley first proposed marriage to her following Corporation. She held that position from 1978
Clinton did not sell nearly as well (other than her College, where she majored in political graduation, but she declined, uncertain if she until the end of 1981. From mid-1978 to mid-
memoirs and those of her husband). science. During her first year, she was president wanted to tie her future to his. 1980, she was the chair of that board, the first
Raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, of the Wellesley Young Republicans. In 2003 Rodham began a year of postgraduate study on woman to hold the job. During her time as
Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in Clinton would write that her views concerning children and medicine at the Yale Child Study chair, funding for the corporation was expanded
1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law the civil rights movement and the Vietnam Center. In late 1973 her first scholarly article, from $90 million to $300 million.
School in 1973. After serving as a congressional War were changing in her early college “Children Under the Law”, was published in Following her husband’s November 1978
legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married years. In a letter to her youth minister at that the Harvard Educational Review. Discussing the election as governor of Arkansas, Rodham
future president Bill Clinton in 1975; the two had time, she described herself as “a mind new children’s rights movement, the article stated became that state’s first lady in January
met at Yale. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas conservative and a heart liberal”. In contrast that “child citizens” were “powerless 1979. She would hold that title for twelve
Advocates for Children and Families. to the factions in the 1960s that advocated individuals” and argued that children should not be nonconsecutive years (1979–81, 1983–92).
She was appointed the first female chair radical actions against the political system, she considered equally incompetent from birth to Clinton appointed his wife to be the chair of the
of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 sought to work for change within it. attaining legal age, but instead that courts should Rural Health Advisory Committee the same
presume competence on a case-by-case basis, year, where she secured federal funds to expand
except when there is evidence otherwise. The medical facilities in Arkansas’s poorest areas
Elder Abuse article became frequently cited in the field. without affecting doctors’ fees.
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