Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is the second woman to be US Secretary of State, after Madeleine Albright during the Clinton administration. She is the first black woman to be Secretary of State, and she holds the highest position in a presidential cabinet that any black woman has held. Rice describes herself as a moderate Republican, and has never been identified with so-called "black issues", which has led some African-Americans to view her with suspicion. She says she became a Republican when she watched the 1984 Democratic Convention on TV, and decided that the Democrats' appeals to "women, minorities, and the poor" really meant "helpless people and the poor". Rice said, "I decided I'd rather be ignored than patronized."

Birth Name
Condoleezza Rice
Born   
November 14, 1954
Birth place
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Gender
Female
Grew up
Titusville
Father
John Wesley Rice,Jr. (Presbyterian minister,football and basketball coach,professor and assistant vice chancellor of the University of Denver,second marriage after first wife's death "Clara Bailey" In July 1989,died in December 2000, aged 77)
Mother
Angelena Ray (Science, music and oratory teacher at Ullman, died of breast cancer in August 1985,aged 61)
Step-mother
Clara Bailey (School principal)
Step-brother
Gregory Stuart Bailey
Religion   
Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity
Black, African-American
Sexual orientation
Matter of Dispute
Nationality
United States
School
St. Mary's Academy, Englewood, CO (1970)
Education

• B.A. degree (in political science from the University of Denver, in 1974)
• Master's Degree (in political science from the University of Notre Dame,in 1975). 
• Ph.D. degree (in Political Science from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, 1981) 

George W bush and Condoleezza Rice

Her first work
In the State Department in 1977, during the Carter administration, as an intern in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
First political Affiliation
Democrat (until 1982,she changed her political affiliation having found fault with former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy.)
Political Affiliation(Present)
Republican

Profession   
Professor (political science at Stanford University), Provost (from 1993 to 1999),Author, Diplomat, Politician
Executive summary

• Senior Director, Soviet & East European Affairs (1989-91)
• President Bush's National Security Advisor (January 20, 2001 – January 26, 2005 and served as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor) 
• United States Secretary of State (66th-January 26, 2005 – January 20, 2009)

Author of books
The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983: Uncertain Allegiance (1984)
The Gorbachev Era (1986, with Alexander Dallin) Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995, with Philip Zelikow) Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010, memoir)
At present
In March 2009, Rice returned to Stanford University as a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. In September 2010, Rice became a faculty member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a director of its Global Center for Business and the Economy.
Marriage
Rice has never married, and has no children