Behind every successful woman...

Depending on your political worldview, the narrative can take various useful revisions like: …there stands a great man…there stand two men: her father and her husband…there stands another good woman...

…or sinister ones: there stands a man who tried to stop her…

…and finally…there stands herself.

Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, and Madeleine Albright are two of the few women who have filled that position; Clinton is married, Albright is divorced. This leaves us with the third female to take the role: Condoleeza Rice. 

Rice, 67, is an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, professor, and current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Rice served as the 66th United States secretary of state, being the third woman and the first African American to take the role, from 2005 to 2009, She served as the 20th national security advisor from 2001 to 2005.

Rice has been named one of the most high-ranking American women in the history of the United States for being successful both politically and financially.

Is Condoleezza Rice Married?

Rice has never been married. The only recorded instance of romantic involvement was in the 1970s when she was briefly engaged to NFL player Rick Upchurch. Rice and Upchurch separated because she knew the>

Who Are Condoleezza Rice’s Children?

Condoleeza Rice has neither had children nor adopted any.