Madeleine Albright was the first female secretary of state. Madeleine Albright was the first female secretary of state. She was 84 years old. Albright served as America's top diplomat for the last four years of the Clinton administration, after President Bill Clinton chose her as America's top diplomat in 1996. She was Clinton's ambassador to the UN. She was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. She wasn't in the line of succession because she was a native of the Czech Republic. She was surrounded by family and friends. In 2012 President Barack Obama awarded Albright the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, saying her life was an inspiration to all Americans. Albright was outspoken through the years. She criticized Bush for using the shock of force rather than alliances to foster diplomacy and for driving away moderate Arab leaders. As a refugee from Czechoslovakia, she was not a dove and played a leading role in pressing for the Clinton administration to get involved in the conflict in Kosovo. She said at the United Nations that the Cuban shootdown of a civilian plane was not cowardice, but rather cowardice. She told women to act in a more confident manner and to ask questions when they occur. She told HuffPost Living in 2010 that she is not going to be silent now that she has a voice. In January 2007, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked her if she approved of Bush's proposal to send more troops to Iraq. We are seen as a colonial power in the Middle East. Albright had a point of view that was shaped by her background. She spent the war years in London after her family fled Czechoslovakia in 1939. She was involved in persuading Clinton to go to war against Slobodan Milosevic over his treatment of Kosovar Albanians. NATO's expansion and a treaty imposing international restrictions on chemical weapons were both approved by the Senate. She led a successful fight to keep Boutros Boutros-Ghali from a second term as secretary-general of the United Nations. She was accused of posing as a friend. She advocated a tough U.S. foreign policy in the case of Milosevic. She once exclaimed to Colin Powell, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, "What is the point of having this superb military?" Albright said in 1998 that he was an eternal optimist as secretary of state to promote peace in the Middle East. She said getting Israel to pull back on the West Bank was a serious problem. Albright tried to expand the 1993 Oslo Accords that established the principle of self-rule for the Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza. She was involved in formulating the Wye Accords in 1998 that gave control of 40% of the West Bank to the Palestinians. She spearheaded a 2000 peace deal between Israel and Syria that ended in failure. She helped guide the U.S. foreign policy during the Balkans and the genocide in Rwanda. The daughter of a diplomat, Marie Korbel was born on May 15, 1937. When she was 5, the family was converted to Roman Catholicism. Three of her grandparents died in concentration camps. Albright said that she became aware of her Jewish background after she became secretary of state. After World War II, the family returned to Czechoslovakia, but fled to the United States after the Communists took power. The father got a job at the University of Denver. Condoleezza Rice is the first Black woman to hold the office of secretary of state. Albright graduated from Wellesley College. She studied international relations at Columbia University after working as a journalist and earned a master's degree in 1968. 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