• She was raised in a United Methodist family, first in Chicago and then, from the age of three, in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois
• Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (1911–1993)
• Her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell (1919–2011)
• Hillary grew up with two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony
• In the late spring of 1971, she began dating Bill Clinton, also a law student at Yale
• She still harbored doubts about marriage, concerned that her separate identity would be lost and that her accomplishments would be viewed in the light of someone else's
• Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton bought a house in Fayetteville in the summer of 1975, and Hillary finally agreed to marry.
• Their wedding took place on October 11, 1975, in a Methodist ceremony in their living room.
• announced she was keeping the name Hillary Rodham, to keep their professional lives separate and avoid apparent conflicts of interest and because "it showed that I was still me,"[65] although her decision upset their mothers
• In August 1974, Rodham moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and became one of only two female faculty members in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• 1982. During her husband's campaign, Rodham began to use the name Hillary Clinton
• In 1979, Rodham became the first woman to be made a full partner of Rose Law Firm
• From 1982 to 1988, Clinton was on the board of directors, sometimes as chair, of the New World Foundation,[96] which funded a variety of New Left interest groups.[
• She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America: in 1988 and in 1991
• Clinton had been preparing for a potential candidacy for United States President since at least early 2003.
• No woman had ever been nominated by a major party for President of the United States
• Clinton led candidates competing for the Democratic presidential nomination in