Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of President Bill Clinton.
Mar 18, 2015 · Origin. In 1973, in between the time she first began dating fellow Yale law school student Bill Clinton in 1971 and finally agreed to marry him in …
Jun 13, 2016 · After sitting for the Arkansas bar exam, Hillary, along with 816 other aspiring lawyers, took the District of Columbia’s bar exam in July 1973.
Aug 29, 2016 · Clinton herself confirmed the exam outcome in her 2003 book "Living History," according to Snopes. "When I learned that I passed in Arkansas but failed in D.C., I thought that maybe my test scores ...
Mar 21, 2016 · Hillary Clinton’s law license lapsed in 2002, but she wasn’t disbarred. Hillary Clinton was admitted to the Arkansas Bar Association in October 1973, and her license was suspended in March 2002 because she didn’t meet continuing education requirements, according to online Arkansas Judiciary records. So, it’s true that Hillary Clinton’s law license was suspended in 2002.
The following year Hillary Rodham moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she took a position as a faculty member with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law, and in 1977 (having married Bill Clinton in the interregnum) she joined the Rose Law Firm, where she specialized in patent infringement and intellectual property law cases.
In 1973, in between the time she first began dating fellow Yale law school student Bill Clinton in 1971 and finally agreed to marry him in 1975 (after turning down an earlier proposal), Hillary Rodham graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale, sat bar exams in Arkansas and the District of Columbia and worked with Marian Wright Edelman’s newly founded Children’s Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Despite passing in Arkansas, she failed in D.C., signaling the beginning of the end of her short-lived career.
Named partner at Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Supreme Court arguer, former dean of Stanford Law School, and California bar exam failure.
Luckily for Brown, failing the California bar the first time around didn't disqualify him from becoming the state's governor.
Failed the New York bar, maybe because he kinda wishes wife beating was legal.
Good news: You can fail the Tennessee bar exam and still vote to authorize wars, ban same-sex marriage, and support the credit card industry!
Clearly failing the bar held back the former New York mayor from ever achieving anything of note his entire life.
Good to know: Failing the bar can't even keep you off the SCOTUS bench.
He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application.
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996.
The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching.
Hillary Clinton, also a former Senator, first lady, and presidential candidate, failed to pass the District of Columbia bar exam in 1973, the same year she passed the bar in Arkansas.
Take Kamala Harris for instance. She graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989 and did fail the bar exam on her first attempt, per The New York Times. She later passed.