On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama was elected president, nominated Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State, and the Senate unanimously approved.
She became the 67th U.S. secretary of state in 2009, serving until 2013. In 2016, she became the first woman in U.S. history to become an American politician and the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
Her graduation from Wellesley in 1969, Hillary Clinton entered Yale Law School, where she came the influence of from Yale University alumni Marian Wright Edelman, she is a lawyer and an American activist for the rights of children. Through her work with Edelman, she developed a strong interest in family law and issues affecting children.