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During law school, Clinton had worked as a staff attorney at the Children's Defense Fund and as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children. Clinton graduated from law school in 1973. In 1974, Clinton worked as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff during the impeachment process against President Richard Nixon.
Hillary Diane Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat.She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States as the wife of Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
The United States Senate career of Hillary Rodham Clinton began when she defeated Republican Rick Lazio in the 2000 United States Senate election in New York. She was elected to a second term in 2006. Clinton resigned from the Senate on January 21, 2009, to become United States Secretary of State for the Obama Administration.
TIME magazine profiled Clinton, and she arrived at Yale Law School with a reputation for audacity. Soon after, she met a young man named Bill, "a wild card in her well-ordealed cerebral existence."
During the interview, Hillary also discussed why she initially refused to take her husband's last name -- a decision that had caused a bit of an issue during Bill's 1978 campaign for governor.
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On May 25, 2009, Clinton received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Yale University, from whose law school she had graduated three dozen years earlier. [ 36 ] Also on May 25, 2009, Clinton received an award from the National Coordinated Effort of Hellenes, for "unprecedented steps taken in the right direction on Hellenic and Orthodox issues".
Taylor's court-appointed criminal defense lawyer was 27-year-old Hillary Rodham (now Clinton). At the time, she taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law, and represented the defendant pro bono.