She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.

She became aware that two Italian workmen, carrying a large azalea pot, were standing before her and wanted her to move so that they could begin arranging a new row of the display.

She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.

She converted to Islam and became known as Umm Habiba ( Little Mother of the Beloved ).

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab, and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3: 3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

She became a vegetarian and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings.

She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugène.

She also drew Manet into the circle of painters who soon became known as the Impressionists.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street ( for which she received an Academy Award nomination ) and Annie Hall.

She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.

She became a member of the Communist Party in 1938, and married Deng a year later in front of Mao's cave dwelling in Yan ' an.

She became the top-ranking female box office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers ( male and female ), as of 2012.

She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Titan goddess Luna.

She also became the goddess of childbirth and ruled over the countryside.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

She made headlines and became part of the national debate over troubled child stars, particularly given the difficulties of her Diff ' rent Strokes co-stars, Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges.

She went on to Yale Law School, obtaining her Juris Doctor degree with honors in 1980.

She earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

She has made guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NYPD Blue, Third Watch, Cosby, Better off Ted and La Femme Nikita.

She also worked as a Poor Law Guardian and was shocked by the harsh conditions she encountered in Manchester workhouses.

She was a lawyer in the legal IT sector and lectured at presentations by the Law Faculty of the University of Rome.

She has appeared in guest roles on Family Ties ( 1985 ), ER ( 1999 ), Law and Order: Special Victims Unit ( 2002 ), 7th Heaven ( 2004 ), Law and Order: Criminal Intent ( 2006 ), Surface ( 2006 ), The Good Wife ( 2009, 2010 & 2012 ), Medium ( 2009 ), Greys Anatomy ( 2009 ), Fringe ( 2010 ) and How To Make It In America ( 2010 ).

She was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1971 and to the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1977.

She then taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, first as a Lecturer ( 1974 ), then as Assistant Professor ( 1975 ), Associate Professor ( 1977 – 1987 ), and finally as Associate Professor and Associate Dean ( 1987 ).

She portrayed Elle Woods, a fashion merchandising major who decides to become a law student in order to follow her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School.

She was employed with Eunice Police Department ( 2008-2011 ) where her father first started his Law Enforcement career back in 1973 & she is now employed with Oakdale Police Department in Oakdale, LA ( 2011-Present ) also where her father was employed as well in 1976.

She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003 and became an associate attorney at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

She also appeared in the season nine episode " Streetwise " of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, as an on-the-street-mother who adopts street children forming a homeless family.

She was succeeded in that role in the 1980s by Mary Robinson, a former Reid Professor of Law and then-Trinity College Senator, who later became the first female President of Ireland.

She was the guest star in the second episode of the long running NBC television series Law & Order.

She has also been recognized for excellence in teaching by the 1994 Harvey Levin Teaching Award at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the 2002 Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence from Harvard Law School.

She serves as a board member of the Rape Treatment Center at UCLA Medical Center and co-narrated a documentary on campus rape with her L. A. Law co-star, Corbin Bernsen.

She played a recurring role as Sophie Devere in the NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2005 to 2009.

She was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest appearances in Seinfeld, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Practice.

She played a defense attorney on Law & Order.

She was a professor at Rutgers School of Law – Newark and Columbia Law School.