Janet Napolitano

Janet Napolitano ( born November 29, 1957 in New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. From January 2003 to January 2009 she was Governor of the State of Arizona; after she practiced from January 2009 to September 2013 the Office of the Minister of Internal Security in the Cabinet of President Barack Obama from. After she announced her resignation in July 2013, they carried out this September 6 of the same year and took on the same day the function of the President of the University of California system.

Life and work

Janet Napolitano was born in New York as a child of a Methodist family. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, on. After graduating from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, she studied at Santa Clara University political science. After this degree, she was a staff member of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget and attended the University of Virginia, the School of Law.

In 1998 she was elected Attorney General of Arizona; previously they had acted as a federal prosecutor in this state since 1993. In 1999 her name was a household name when she, despite evidence of violation of international law began in Germany (in this case, "the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations " ), for the execution of the two German brothers Karl and Walter LaGrand. Clemency petitions the federal government as well as an injunction of the International Court of Justice and Views of the UN did not change their opinion. The executions took place in February and March 1999.

In 2002, she won the election for governor of Arizona to Republican Matt Salmon; on November 7, 2006, she was re-elected to that office by defeating her challenger Len Munsil. She was after Rose Mofford and its direct predecessor Jane Dee Hull, the third woman to hold this office.

After the victory of Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential elections in 2008, she was nominated for the office of the Minister of Internal Security. On January 20, 2009, the day of Obama's inauguration, Napolitano's appointment was confirmed by the Senate by acclamation. On 16 March 2009 she attended the first Cabinet member of the Obama administration and Germany, signed in Berlin with the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, the first intergovernmental agreement the Obama administration with the federal government.

On July 12, 2013 Janet Napolitano announced that she will resign from her ministerial position to become President of the University of California. Following the occurrence of the vacancy, her former deputy edge Beers became acting head of the Ministry.

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