Condoleezza Y Rice
<DIV><B>Condoleezza Rice</B> was the sixty-sixth US secretary of state and the first black woman to hold that office. Prior to that, she was the first woman to serve as national security adviser. She is a professor at Stanford University and cofounder of RiceHadleyGates LLC. Rice is the <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author of <I>No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington</I> (2011), <I>Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family</I> (2010), <I>Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom</I> (2017), and <I>Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity</I> (2018).</DIV>