Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm was the first woman to be elected governor of Michigan, assuming office in 2003. She was elected again in 2006 for what would be her final term under state term limits. Granholm was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up in California. She studied political science and French at the University of California, Berkeley, then graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. After law school she clerked for Judge Damon Keith on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; in 1986 she married Daniel Mulhearn, and the couple returned to his home state of Michigan, where Granholm worked as an assistant U.S. attorney, becoming Michigan's first female Attorney General in 1998. Following the 2008 presidential election, Granholm served as an economic adviser to President Barack Obama, working alongside Time Warner's Richard Parsons and former Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker on the president's transition team. After leaving the Michigan governor's office Granholm became an adviser to The Pew Charitable Trusts' Clean Energy Program. She is also a Distinguished Practitioner of Law and Public Policy at UC-Berkeley and the author of "A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future" (2011).
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