Condoleezza Rice by Kierstin Livermore

• Condoleezza Rice was born on November 14th, 1954 and is an American political scientist and diplomat (Republican).
• 66th Secretary of State and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush.
• Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State, the second African-American Secretary of State, and the second female Secretary of State.
• Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position.
• Before being part of the Bush Administration, Rice was a professor of political science at Stanford University.
• Rice also served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and Eastern Europe Affairs Advisor to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.
• As Secretary of State, Rice pioneered the policy of Transformational Diplomacy directed towards expanding the number of responsible democratic governments in the world and especially in the Greater Middle East