Photo: 不明 / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
What strikes me about Condoleezza Rice is the sheer improbability of her trajectory: a Black girl from segregated Birmingham who became a Soviet specialist, a concert-level pianist, and the chief diplomat of the United States. One can argue endlessly about the foreign policy she helped shape, and people do, but I am more interested in the discipline underneath it all. She treated education as armor, and it carried her through rooms that were never built to admit her. Now leading the Hoover Institution, she remains a scholar at heart, and that intellectual seriousness is what earns my respect regardless of politics.
Overview
Condoleezza "Condi" Rice ( KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since 2020, she has served as the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Condoleezza Rice
- Name (Japanese)
- コンドリーザ・ライス
- Reading
- こんどりーざ・らいす
- Born
- November 14, 1954 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Horse
- Origin
- Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / writer / political scientist / diplomat / autobiographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Denver
Awards & achievements
- 2007 Eric M. Warburg Award
- 1989 Candace Award
- 2010 Horatio Alger Award
- Order of Stara Planina
- Order of the Star of Romania
- Order of San Carlos
- Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Politician — see all → · Writer — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.