As early as college, she demonstrated leadership when she was selected to be the first student speaker at her commencement at Wellesley College. As a law student at Yale she represented foster children and parents in family court. She also worked on some of the earliest studies creating legal standards for identifying and protecting abused children. After graduating from Yale she became a staff attorney for the Children’s Defense Fund. She served as one of only two women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee considering the Impeachment of Richard Nixon.
Upon marrying Bill Clinton and moving Arkansas, she ran a legal aid clinic that handled cases of foster care and child abuse. She organized a group called Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. At the age of 30 she was appointed by President Carter to the Board of the United States Legal Services Corporation to continue funding legal assistance to the poor. As First Lady of Arkansas she led a task......
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