From this prestigious post, she went on to service as Provost of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Dr. Rice worked on George W. Bush's 2000 campaign, serving as his Chief Foreign Policy Tutor, before joining his administation over the past four years as the President's National Security Advisor.
On January 22, 2001, Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor. She is the first woman to occupy this critical position.
Dr. Rice's Service & Publications at Stanford University
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's Chief Budget and Academic Officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
Then in her late 30s, she was the youngest person, the first African-American and the first woman to hold this most esteemed position.
Rice was the youngest Provost in Stanford's 102-year history.
As a professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution.
Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984).
She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
Dr. Rice's Corporate & Non-Profit Board Service
She was a member of the Boards of Directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.
She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula.
In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Condi Rice's Education
Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004.
Condi Rice's Personal Interests & Roots
Dr. Rice resides in Washington, D.C.
Her roots, which ony made her stronger, wiser and passionate about education, are planted in the segregated South. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1954,
Condi's mother, Angelena, was a schoolteacher.
The Rice family lived in a middle-class, black community called Titusville, where education was a high priority for children who were expected to succeed. Prejudices and boundaries were not part of their vocabulary.
Her name is derived from an Italian musical term -- con dolcezza -- which means to play "with sweetness."
She is fluent in Russian. She is an accomplished concert pianist. (Her maternal grandmother was a piano teacher.) She is a competitive ice skater and tennis player. She loves to excerciser and is passionate about all sports, specifically football and basketball. She credits sports for having brought her together with Bush. She often uses sports metaphors to make her point.
Some day, she hopes to serve as the Commissioner of the NFL. Until then, she will have to do with being the most important woman in U.S. government.
Rice's interest in football was bred by her father, a minister and academic, John Rice, now deceased.
Rice says she is a deeply religious woman, a Presbyterian from the South, who believes in democracy and football.
Her punch line at the National Prayer Breakfast was "You're safe playing it in the Key of C."
Another expression, perhaps along the same lines: KISS -- "Keep It Simple Smarty."
To read her October 2002 testimony, go to:
The Christian Testimony of Condoleezza Rice
Congratulations and Happy Birthday, Dr. Rice! How sweet it is!!
Inspire & Be Inspired (R).
Here's to healthy, adventuresome, soulful and "diplomatic" living!
~ Jennifer Carolyn King
Sources: WhiteHouse.gov and friends from Menlo Park Presbyterian Church.
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