Condoleezza Rice The First African American Secretary of State
by Condoleeza Rice, the first African American Secretary of State built and sustained Democratic states worldwide, especially in the Middle East.
Condoleezza rice was born an only child to a Presbyterian minister and a teacher on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. She grew up in the racial segregated South, but became the first woman and first African-American to be a provost of Stanford University in 1993 and held that position for six years.
George W. Bush appointed her National Security Adviser in 2001 after Colin Powell’s resignation, when she served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States from January 2005-2009.
While she was Secretary of State, Rice dedicated her department to “Transformational Diplomacy,” a mission to build and sustain democratic, well-governed states worldwide, especially the Middle East. She was able to relocate American diplomats to Iraq, Afghanistan and Angola, requiring them to be fluent in two foreign languages.
Rice was influential in creating a high-level position to de-fragment U.S. foreign aid.
Condoleeza earned her B.A in political science from the University of Denver in 1974. In 1975 she earned her M.A from the University of Notre Dame, and her Ph.D., from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She joined Stanford University as a political science professor in 1981. Rice became an international affairs fellow attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the mid 1980s in Washington.
In 1989 she became special assistant to George Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification. That same year she became director of Soviet and East European affairs with the National Security Council.She served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-Integrated Training in the Mzilitary in 1997.
Condoleeza Rice wrote Germany Unified and Europe Transformed in 1995 with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era in 1986 with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army in 1984.
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