Zoe Baird
Zoe Baird (Zoë Baird)(born June 20, 1952) is a lawyer and president of the Markle Foundation. She was Bill Clinton's nominee for United States Attorney General in 1993 but later withdrew her nomination when the news of her hiring illegal immigrants to serve as her chauffeur and nanny, and neglecting to pay their social security taxes broke. She paid $2,900 in fines for the infraction. [1]
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Zoe Baird has a B.A. in political science in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. in 1977 from the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. [2]
She acts as the Co-Chair of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age andparticipates in the Steering Committee of Markle's Connecting for HealthInitiative. She ais also an honorary trustee of The Brookings Institution and serves assecretary and treasurer of the U.S. China Youth Forum. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. She also serves on the Boards of Save the Children, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Institute for State Studies at Western Governors University. She founded Children America and serves on the Board of Lawyers. She participates in the Steering Committee of Markle's Connecting for Health initiative, and is on a number of non-profit and corporate boards, including the Chubb Corporation, Boston Properties, and the Brookings Institution.[3]
Career History
- Zoe Baird worked as a clerk for U.S. District Judge Albert C. Wollenberg from 1977 to 1978.
- From 1980 until 1981 she was Associate Counsel to President Jimmy Carter and an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. [4]
- She was a Partner in the international law firm of O’Melveny & Myers from 1981 to 1986. [5]
- Ms. Baird worked as a Counselor and Staff Executive of General Electric Co., from 1986 to 1990. [6]
- From 1993 tot 2001, the administration of President Bill Clinton, she served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and on the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General
- Ms. Baird has been a Director of Boston Properties Inc., the General Partner of Boston Properties Limited Partnership since May 11, 2005, The Chubb Corporation since 1998 and Zurn Industries Inc., since August 1993.
- She has been a Director of John and Mary R Markle Foundation since January 1998.
- She was a Senior Visiting Scholar of Yale Law School from 1996 to 1997. She served as Senior Research Associate at Yale Law School.
- Zoe Baird became President of the Markle Foundation in 1998. [7]
- Sine March 2000, She has been an Independent Director of Convergys Corporation.
- Since 2001 has Co-Chaired with Jim Barksdale the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age
- She was in in the Technology & Privacy Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense in 2003-2004 .