Hillary Rodham Clinton Biography Hillary Rodham Clinton, named one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" in 1988 and 1991 by The National Law Journal, is a nationally recognized advocate of children's rights, the public education system and is an expert in the changing roles of women in our society. A partner in the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, Arkansas, she specializes in litigation. She has served as chair of the board of directors of the Children's Defense Fund and the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession and is a member of the board of the National Center on Education and the Economy. She also serves on the boards of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the Arkansas Childrens' Hospital and Southern Development Bancorportation. As Chair of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee from 1983-1984, Hillary Clinton recommended that substantial changes be made to the accreditation standards for the state's public schools, standards which later served as a model for other states across the nation. In 1969, she graduated with high honors from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts where she was President of College Government. She received her law degree in 1973 from Yale Law School. At Yale she was Director of the Barristers' Union and served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. Hillary Clinton worked for the Impeachment Inquiry Staff of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives in 1974 which investigated former President Nixon's involvement in Watergate. She later taught at the Schools of Law at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and in Little Rock and served as the Director of the University of Arkansas' Legal Aid Clinic. An author and a lecturer, Hillary Clinton has been asked to speak around the country on many issues including education, children and families, and the changing roles of women. She has received Honorary Doctor of Laws Degrees from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1985, and Arkansas College, Batesville, Arkansas, 1988, and was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Honor Young Mother of the Year in 1984. Hillary Rodham Clinton is married to Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas. They have a daughter, Chelsea, age 12.