Clinton was the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. The National Law Journal twice listed her as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm the following year. In 1977, Clinton co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married future president Bill Clinton in 1975 the two had met at Yale. Raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Rodham graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1973. Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( née Rodham born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States as the wife of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
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