Category: U.S. Cabinet Member / page 2

Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane J Kirkpatrick


Jeane Kirkpatrick was a foreign policy advisor under President Ronald Reagan and the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, serving from 1981 to 1985. Kirkpatrick was born on November 19, 1926, in Duncan, Oklahoma. She received an associate’s degree from Stephens College in 1946, a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1948 and a master's and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1950 and 1968, respectively. Between her master's and Ph.D., Kirkpatrick was a research analyst with the Office of Intelligence Research at […]
Linda McMahon
Linda McMahon


Linda McMahon was the administrator of the Small Business Administration under the Trump administration from Feb. 14, 2017 to April 12, 2019. She resigned to chair the America First Action PAC, a pro-Trump super PAC. McMahon was born October 4, 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree from East Carolina University in 1966. After graduation, McMahon worked as a paralegal at a corporate law firm. In 1980, McMahon and her husband co-founded Titan Sports, Inc. (now WWE, Inc.), and she served as president and later CEO […]
Janet Napolitano
Janet A Napolitano


Janet Napolitano has served as president of the University of California system since September 2013. Previously, she served as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, the first woman to hold that post. Napolitano was born in New York City on November 29, 1957, and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned a Bachelor of Science in political science from Santa Clara University in 1979, where she was the university's first female valedictorian, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in […]
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins


Frances Perkins served as the U.S. secretary of labor from 1933-1945 and was the principal architect of the New Deal. She was the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet position and the first woman to enter the presidential line of succession. As secretary of labor, she was largely responsible for the adoption of social security, unemployment insurance, federal laws regulating child labor and the federal minimum wage. Perkins was born on April 10, 1880, in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Mount Holyoke College in […]
Mary Peters
Mary E Peters


Mary E. Peters served as U.S. secretary of transportation from 2006-2009. Peters was born December 4, 1948, in Peoria, Arizona. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Phoenix, and attended Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Program for State and Local Government Executives. Prior to serving as U.S. secretary of transportation, Peters was a senior vice president and national director for Transportation Policy and Consulting for HDR, Inc., a major engineering company. In 2001, Peters was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the […]
Samantha Power
Samantha Power


Samantha Jane Power served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from August 5, 2013 to January 20, 2017. Power was born September 21, 1970. Her family emigrated from Ireland to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1979. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University in 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Power worked as a journalist, covering the Yugoslav Wars for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999. From […]
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo


Gina Raimondo was confirmed as U.S. secretary of commerce on March 2, 2021. She served as governor of Rhode Island from 2015-2021, the first woman to serve as Rhode Island's governor, and as Rhode Island's treasurer from 2011-2015, only the second woman to serve in that role in Rhode Island. Raimondo was born May 17, 1971, in Smithfield, Rhode Island. She earned a B.A. in economics from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in sociology from Oxford University (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After […]
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice


Condoleezza Rice served as U.S. secretary of state from January 2005 until January 2009, the second woman and the first African American woman to hold that position. Rice was also the first woman to serve as national security advisor, from 2001-2005 in the George W. Bush administration. Rice was born on November 14, 1954, in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver in 1974, her master's degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1975, and her Ph.D. in […]
Susan Rice
Susan E Rice


Susan E. Rice has served as director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council since Jan. 20, 2021. Rice was born November 17, 1964, in Washington, D.C. In 1986, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Stanford University, was a Truman Scholar. She earned a master's degree and a doctorate in international relations from New College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes scholar. In 1990, she was awarded the Chatham House-British International Studies Association Prize for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation in the United Kingdom in the […]
Susan Schwab
Susan C Schwab


Susan C. Schwab served as United States Trade Representative (USTR) from June 8, 2006 until January 2009. Schwab was born on March 23, 1955. She received a bachelor's degree in political economy from Williams College, a master's degree in development policy from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in public administration and international business from George Washington University. Her first job was as an agricultural trade negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, then as a trade policy officer in the U.S. embassy in Tokyo. She spent eight years […]