Hillary Clinton

In 2016, she ran again for president and made history by changing into the first lady to merely accept the nomination of a serious political get together. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was the primary girl of Arkansas, first lady of the United States, United States senator from New York (marking the first time within the nation’s history that a first lady was elected to the Senate), and Secretary of State within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was the only U.S. first woman to keep an office in the West Wing among the many president’s senior employees and the only first lady to run for president.

During her second stint as the primary girl of Arkansas, she made a point of using Hillary Rodham Clinton as her name. She was named chair of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee in 1983, where she sought to reform the state's court-sanctioned public schooling system. In one of the Clinton governorship's most essential initiatives, she fought a prolonged however in the end profitable battle against the Arkansas Education Association to establish necessary trainer testing and state standards for curriculum and classroom measurement.

Clinton was U.S. secretary of state in the first time period of the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013. During her tenure, Clinton established the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. She responded to the Arab Spring by advocating military intervention in Libya however was harshly criticized by Republicans for the failure to stop or adequately reply to the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Following her husband's November 1978 election as governor of Arkansas, Rodham grew to become that state's first woman in January 1979. Clinton appointed his spouse to be the chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the identical 12 months, where she secured federal funds to broaden medical services in Arkansas's poorest areas without affecting medical doctors' fees.