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She entered the Cabinet as the first Minister for Overseas Development, becoming the fourth woman in British history ever to hold position in a Cabinet, after Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson and Florence Horsbrugh.
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She would clearly not have entered into the contract knowing the watch was fake, and is entitled to her £ 100 back.
She served 30 days in jail for violation of the terms of her probation and entered a drug program immediately thereafter.
She worked as a management trainee for Kmart in 1981 but quit after a few months and entered a beauty pageant.
She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her Ph. D and joining the faculty in 1923.
She entered the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1986 and retired in 2001.
She entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery St. Maria vom Frieden ( Our Lady of Peace ) at Cologne in 1933 and took the name Teresia Benedicta a cruce ( Teresia Benedicta of the Cross ).
She attended the University of Chicago at age 14 having entered " because she wanted to go and they let me in ".
" She entered the room to find Tracy dead from a heart attack.
She and her husband Geoffrey entered Normandy and began military campaigns to claim her inheritance there.
She entered and won a talent contest on the television program Sing, Sing, Sing, hosted by 1960s Australian icon Johnny O ' Keefe, performing the songs " Anyone Who Had a Heart " and " Everything's Coming Up Roses ".
She entered to find Thalberg sitting at his desk before a tray of diamond engagement rings.
She entered the duchy on April 18.
She then entered and won a Charleston dance contest which allowed her to tour for six months, at one point in 1926 performing at an 18-month-old theater called The Craterian in Medford, Oregon.
She entered the convent in Las Huelgas, where she was living in 1284.
She was a benefactress of the abbey of L ' Épau in Le Mans, entered the conventual life, and was buried in the abbey.
She was the last of the Macedonian line, and upon her death, the empire entered a period of decline that lasted until the accession of Alexios I Komnenos in 1081.
She is thought to have entered Henry's life around the time that Eleanor was pregnant with her final child, John who was born on 24 December 1166 at Oxford.
She entered the House of Commons at the 1997 general election in the Labour landslide as the Member of Parliament for Staffordshire Moorlands, a seat held previously by David Knox and which had been Conservative for 27 years.
She entered Georgia State College for Women ( now Georgia College & State University ), in an accelerated three-year program, and graduated in June 1945 with a Social Sciences degree.
She entered mainstream show business in an uncredited role as one of the orphan girls in the 1982 motion picture Annie.
She was not able to find much new information about Beverly or Harriet Hemings, who left Monticello as young adults and entered the white community, likely changing their names.
She regularly entered public speaking competitions, placing first in the " Humorous Interpretation " category at the National District Tournament two years running.
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She afterwards declined to serve in Iain Duncan Smith's Shadow Cabinet ( although she indicated on the television programme When Louis Met ..., prior to the leadership contest, that she wished to retire to the backbenches anyway ).
She was the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husband's death, stood for Parliament herself, becoming Australia's first female Member of the House of Representatives, and later first woman in Cabinet, joining the Menzies Cabinet in 1951.
She was thus the first woman from Quebec to become a minister of the Crown, and was the sole female in that Cabinet.
She revealed that she had been written to by Britain's senior civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Andrew Turnbull.
She later served in the Cabinet under Tony Blair, most notably being appointed Foreign Secretary in 2006.
She attended Cabinet meetings, but was not a full member and was not to be entitled to vote on collective decisions.
She left the Cabinet when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.
She was politically active in her White House years as her husband's closest adviser and sat in on Cabinet and policy meetings.
She also served as treasurer of the Congressional Club, a group composed of the wives of congressmen and Cabinet members.
She was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
She joined the Blair Cabinet for the first time following the 2001 General Election as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Minister for Women and Equality.
She was appointed Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald on 8 June 1929, the first time that a woman had been made a Cabinet Minister in Britain.
She was appointed a member of the Privy Council ( PC ) upon joining John Major's Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health in 1992 and served until 1995.
She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher.
She submitted testimony in Bush v. Gore that was subsequently referenced in the briefs to the U. S. Supreme Court, and has since testified before the U. S. House Science Committee, the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, the UK Cabinet, and numerous other federal and state legislative bodies about voting systems.
She was invited to sit on Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Board.
She is a former member of Cabinet, and a former school principal.
She served in that position until moving over to the Executive Branch of government where she served as special counsel to the Department of Defense, and as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet, both positions in the Carter Administration.
She took office after being confirmed by the United States Senate in February 2009, becoming the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U. S. Cabinet.
She also served as a Cabinet Minister as Secretary of State for Scotland.
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