Editor's Note: This is another installment in the Rapier's daily profiles of one of Barack Obama's nominees to a cabinet or high-level administration post.
Ambassador to the United Nations:
Born November 17, 1964, in Washington, DC, daughter of a former governor of the Federal Reserve. Rice was a three-sport athlete in high school, and attended Stanford University, where she graduated with a BA in History. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, the Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation as the UK's most distinguished in international relations. Rice is married to Canadian-born ABC News producer Ian Officer Cameron. They have two children.
Rice was a foreign policy aide to Michael Dukakis during the 1988 presidential election. Rice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities: at the National Security Council from 1993 to 1997; as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995; and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs from 1995 to 1997.
Secretary of State Madeline Albright is a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice, who urged Clinton to appoint Rice as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in 1997. In that job, Rice was viewed by many officials and diplomats as very bright, but also as inexperienced and inflexible. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry.
On December 1, 2008, she was nominated by President-elect Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, a position which he also upgraded to cabinet level. Rice will be the second youngest[21] and first African American woman US Representative to the UN. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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