Hillary Clinton's Kevo

When first lady Hillary Clinton was a teenager growing up in a suburb of Chicago, she campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. As a freshman at Wellesley College, she headed the local chapter of the Young Republicans. Today, Hillary Clinton is one of the main targets of the Republican Party’s attacks on the White House and its policies.

Clinton, who met now President Bill Clinton at Yale Law School, made her switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party during the late ‘60s when social upheaval sharpened her sense of social inequity. From then on, she began to match her drive and leadership abilities to matters of social justice, particularly those facing children. After working with civil rights lawyer Marian Edelman’s Washington Research Project and the special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee investigating impeachment proceedings against President Nixon, Clinton married her boyfriend Bill, who was just beginning his political career in Arkansas. She spent some time teaching at the University of Arkansas, and later joined the Rose Law firm in Little Rock. In between she helped her husband’s political efforts, but her ambitions and her means of achieving them never seemed to come without controversy.

Arkansas voters didn’t care for her “independence” when she opted not to take Clinton’s name in marriage, so after losing his seat for governor in 1982 Hillary did add Clinton to her name. Her prominent policy making role in Arkansas government, which she held while working at the Rose Law Firm, did not really become a problem until her husband ran for president. Early on he touted his candidacy as a “buy one, get one free” deal, with Hillary included. After his election win she was named head of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, an appointment that to many seemed to have more to do with her marriage than her suitability for the job. Since becoming the first lady, Hillary Clinton has been an outspoken advocate of health care reform, new methods of child care, and education reform. She has, however, been dogged by controversy over her role in the administration, her marital problems, her role in her husband’s career, her Whitewater investments, her duties at the Rose Law Firm, her knowledge of her husband’s affairs, and her role in White House lawyer Vince Foster’s death, to name a few.

As her husband’s term comes to a close Hillary Clinton is determined not to fade out of the spotlight like most former first ladies, in part because of her determination to continue bringing attention to the causes she cares about. She has been openly considering running for senator in New York, most likely against now mayor of New York City Rudolph Guiliani, but pundits remain doubtful considering questions of her past would undoubtedly be asked all over again, and this time by a tough New York press.
Climb to Fame
First Lady to the 42nd President of the United States and Senate hopeful
Work History
(1993) Serves as the leader of the president's Task Force on National Health Care Reform.

(1992) At Hillary Clinton's urging, Steve Kroft interviewed her and Bill Clinton on 60 Minutes on Super Bowl Sunday. This interview, in which the Clintons discussed their marital problems and asked the public to respect their "zone of privacy", was given in order to counter poor publicity generated from Gennifer Flowers' allegations of an affair with Bill Clinton.

(1992) First Lady of the United States

(1982) When her husband was seeking to win back the governor's seat in Arkansas, she took her husband's name and underwent a makeover that included changing her thick glasses for contact lenses, lightening and taming her hair, losing 15 pounds, and dressing more fashionably.

(1980-1982, 1984-1992) During her husband's tenure as governor of Arkansas, holds a number of positions, including head of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, board of director for the Arkansas Children's Hospital, member of the Southern Governors' Association Task Force on Infant Mortality.

(1980) Becomes partner at the Rose Law Firm.

(1977) Associate at the Rose Law Firm.

(1976-1977) Adjunct professor and director of the legal aid clinic at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

(1975-1979) US District Court (east district) of Arkansas, reporter for federal court speedy trial planning group.

(1974-1976) Instructor at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

(1974) Staff lawyer in charge of legal procedure for the special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, then inquiring into the impeachment of President Nixon, Washington, DC.

(1972) Research assistant for Anna Freud, Joseph Goldstein, and Albert Solnit (authors of Beyond the Best Interests of the Child) at the Yale University Child Study Center.

(1970) Staff member of the Washington Research Project (later the Children's Defense Fund); wage was a stipend paid by a Law Student Civil Rights Research Council grant.
Affiliations
board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation; Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters; board of directors Arkansas Children's Hospital; ; board of directors Wal-Mart, TCBY, and LaFarge (resigned them all in May 1992); Board of directors Childrens Defense Fund, Washington, 1976-92, chair, 1986-91, Legal Services Corporation., Washington, 1977-81, chair, 1978-80; founder, president, board of directors for the Arkansas Advisory Committee for Children and Families, 1977-84; board of directors for the Child Care Action Campaign, 1986-92, National Center on Education and the Economy, 1987-92, Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1988-92, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, 1988-92, Children's TV Workshop, 1989-92, Pub./Pvt. Ventures, 1990-92; chairperson of the Arkansas Education Standards Commission, 1983-84; Member, Committee on Quality Education. So. Regional Edn. Bd., 1984-92; chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, 1987-91; honoray president Girl Scouts of America, 1993-; member of the advisory board of HIPPY, 1988-92, board of directors; honorary chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1993-, U.S. Delegate to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995; honorary member of The Pen and Brush, 1996-. Fellow American Bar Foundation; member Arkansas Bar Association, Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, Arkansas Women Lawyers Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Pulaski County Bar Association.
Awards
Hillary Clinton has also won numerous Awards