Hillary Clinton to receive American Bar Association’s highest honor
The American Bar Association announced Friday that it would award its highest honor to Hillary Rodham Clinton, recognizing the former secretary of state for her legal career and for helping women lawyers advance.
The ABA, which represents more than 400,000 lawyers nationwide, will honor Clinton with the ABA Medal at its annual meeting on Aug. 12 in San Francisco. Before serving more than three decades in public life, Clinton, a graduate of Yale Law School, worked as a counsel on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation and also was an attorney in private practice in Arkansas.
“For Hillary Clinton’s immense accomplishments as a lawyer, the strides she made for women both professionally and civically, and for promoting the interests of the U.S. and human rights abroad, she not only deserves this honor, but also the gratitude of the legal profession and the nation,” ABA president Laurel G. Bellows said in a statement.
Clinton, who stepped down as secretary of state on Feb. 1, is racking up a number of accolades this year as she returns to a more private life. A possible 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, she is writing a book this year and pursuing charitable initiatives at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
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What a stellar lady! 
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