Condoleezza Rice, United States National Security Advisor, 1954

Condoleezza was born in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, and the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. In 1999 she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. Condoleezzaa was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). From 1989 through March 1991, Condoleeza served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military. Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to President Bush for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor in 2001.

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