Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician and diplomat. She served as the 67th United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. Clinton was also a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States as the wife of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, making her the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party. Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1973.