Who are Susan Rice’s parents?
FORMER National US Security Adviser Susan Rice was born into a family of highly educated officials.
Rice has joined the Biden administration’s cabinet pick and was chosen to run the White House Domestic Policy Council given her experience in foreign policy.
Who is Susan Rice's mother?
Susan Rice, 56, is the daughter of Lois and Emmett J. Rice, two executives in education and finance.
Lois directed the national scholarship services counseling prior to joining the College Board and was the head of the College Entrance Examination Board's policy research office in Washington, D.C.
She applied her education background in a career in the College Board and served as national vice president from 1973 until 1981.
The executive was known as “the mother of the Pell Grant” because of her involvement in its creation.
Rice was among the first wave of African-American women serving on boards of major US corporations.
She was also a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board under Bill Clinton’s presidency.
Lois passed away in 2017 of pneumonia and cancer in a hospital in Washington, DC.
Who is Susan Rice’s father?
Rice’s father, Emmett was the second African-American governor of the Federal Reserve system.
He was also an economics professor at Cornell university and previously served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
Emmett also worked as an adviser to the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos for a year in 1963.
In 1972, he assumed the position of senior vice president of the National Bank of Washington and was eventually appointed to the Federal Reserve Board in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.
He passed away in March of 2011 of congestive heart failure.
Who is Susan Rice?
Rice was President Barack Obama's US ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 before serving as national security adviser from 2013 until 2017.
As national security adviser Rice was was "responsible for coordinating the formulation and implementation of all aspects" of Obama's foreign and national security policy, according to her online bio.
She served as US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 to 2001.
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Rice has worked in public service for several decades after graduating with honors from Stanford University in 1986.
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She is currently a distinguished visiting research fellow at American University’s School of International Service.
Rice, a native of Washington, DC, is married to Ian Cameron and they have two children.