Born: November 14, 1954, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Condoleezza Rice was a national security adviser (2001) under President George W. Bush. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved to Denver, Colorado, with her family when she was a teenager. She began attending the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1974. She then received a master’s degree in 1975 from the University of Notre Dame and a doctoral degree in 1981 from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. That same year, Rice became an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. In 1986, she worked as a special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a military advisory group to the president of the United States and the secretary of defence. In 1989 she became the director of Soviet and East European Affairs for the National Security Council in the administration of President George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993). She returned to Stanford University in 1991, and in 1993 she became provost of Stanford, the first female and first African American to hold that position. As provost, Rice was the chief academic and budget officer for the university. Rice took academic leave from Stanford in 1999 to serve as the primary foreign affairs adviser to George W. Bush during his presidential campaign. After Bush was elected president, he appointed Rice as his national security adviser. She was the first female to hold the position. Rice is the author of one book, The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983: Uncertain Allegiance (1984), and co-author of two other books, Gorbachev Era (1986) and Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995).
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