Gale Norton

Gale Ann Norton ( born March 11, 1954 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American politician. She was from January 2001 to March 2006 Minister of the Interior of the United States in the Cabinet of President George W. Bush and held so that the first woman to this office.

Career

Gale Norton graduated in 1975 with magna cum laude from the University of Denver and reached their Juris Doctor ( JD) ( conclusion of the three-year legal foundation course in the U.S.) with distinction in 1978. During her studies she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa connection. In the late 70s she was a member of the Libertarian Party, the third largest party in the USA, and in 1980 was elected almost to the party chairman. It belonged to different groups of the " wise use " or " free -market environmentalist " of movement. As a lawyer, she once wrote about some rights of companies, " dirty " to. She also worked as Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and from 1979 to 1983 as Senior Attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

From 1991 to 1999, Norton Attorney General of the State of Colorado, before the election, she worked in Washington, DC as Associate Solicitor for the Interior Ministry. In 1996, she competed as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. Senate, but was defeated by Wayne Allard in the intra-party primary. Before she became interior minister in 2001, she was with Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber, PC employed as a lawyer. In 2004, she was considered a potential successor for the Senate post by Ben Nighthorse Campbell in Colorado, finally decided but then on the other hand, so that the Democrat Ken Salazar won the seat.

On March 10, 2006, she announced her resignation as U.S. Interior Secretary to the end of the month. It was for her at the time, to look for new targets outside of politics, Norton said a day before her 52nd birthday. In a letter of resignation she announced to move to the private sector. She is married to John Hughes.