Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in the school's 371-year history. Her appointment as president was unanimously approved by Harvard's Board of Overseers on Sunday, Feb. 11, after a highly publicized, yearlong search.

Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee

Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President. Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. Ms. Miers has a long and distinguished professional career. Before joining the President's staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (1938- ) is president of Liberia and the first elected female president of any African nation. After Johnson-Sirleaf obtained her master's degree in public administration from Harvard University, she worked in financial management for the Liberian government, eventually ascending to the post of finance minister in the Liberian Cabinet in the 1970s.

Dr. Jannie Tay , Advisory Board A leading businesswoman in Singapore and a mother of four, she is the President of the Singapore Retailers' Association. An icon in the watch industry, she is Vice Chairman of listed luxury watch retailer The Hour Glass, which has a regional network of luxury watch boutiques located across Australia , Hong Kong , Japan , Malaysia , Singapore and Thailand .

Mary Robinson (born 21 May 1944 ) was the first female President of Ireland , serving from 1990 to 1997. She defeated Fianna Fail 's Brian Lenihan in the 1990 presidential election , becoming the first non-Fianna Fail president in the office's history and the first Labour president. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up the post of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights .

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) surprised both liberal and conservative activists Thursday by voting with Republicans on the Judiciary Committee to move a controversial conservative judicial nominee to the Senate floor. Feinstein voted with nine Republicans to pass Leslie Southwick, President Bush�s nominee to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, despite the objections of Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and members of the Democratic leadership who sit on the panel.

Acting was Bette Davis 's life and through it she made herself known. Her first contract in Hollywood was with Universal Pictures late in 1930 when she made her first movie "Bad Sisters." After this film she began getting more movie roles appearing in four to six movies per year. Even though she was getting famous, her roles at Universal weren't what she was looking for. Bette wanted more important roles and Universal didn't have them for her.

Lillyann Goldstein graduated from McGill University's law school with degrees in civil and common law. She was also the first female president of her law class, during her third year and served as the first female president of the entire law school during her fourth year. Lillyann came to Toronto in 1977 and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1979.

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1920. Spencer, her twin sister, two brothers and parents lived in the home her grandfather, a freed slave from West Virginia, built after moving to Gallipolis. She began her long career as an activist for civil rights when she became a member of the NAACP at age 13. In 1938, Spencer graduated from Gallia Academy High in Gallipolis where she was co-valedictorian and a member of the National Honor Society.

Faye Mondschein Sarkowsky is a well-recognized philanthropist who has served as an active board member and leader of many major arts and non-profit organizations such as the Seattle Art Museum, Children's hospital and the Washington Women's Foundation. Sarkowsky was the first female president of PONCHO and the 5 th Avenue Theatre Association. She has also served on the board of Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts