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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 68 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • Degree in PolSci and Econ
  • Head of econ soc, debate team, AKA sorority
  • Doctorate of Jurisprudence
  • president of NLBSA
  • Passed the bar
  • Immediately made Deputy DA
  • chief of Career Criminal Division
  • elected to SF DA as the underdog of 3 candidates, ran unopposed for second term
  • First woman, African American and South Asian American Attorney General
  • Won a legal challenge against a coalition of the five largest mortgage lenders for better rates
  • Brokered privacy policy with FAANG+HP+Blackberry
  • Elected to Senate, committees on Budget, Homeland Security, Fed Spending, Emergency Management, Intelligence, Judiciary, Constitutional Rights, Privacy in Tech
  • Chosen as VP pick
  • Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan
  • Negotiations with France over nuclear submarines
  • Thurgood Marshall Award
  • Newsweeks 20 most powerful women in 2005
  • Time100 three times, twice before becoming VP
  • bipartisan justice award
  • Two honorary doctorates
  • two books + a children's book

...

  • not as smart as Trump

Hmm, yeah, sure.

[–] kelseybcool@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know that wasn't necessarily meant for me but I didn't know all that, so thanks for putting the list together!

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

She's also from a very gifted family in general. Both her parents had PhDs, her mother was a researcher who's credited with making significant advancements in understanding breast cancer, her father was a professor of economics at Stanford and her sister is a lawyer and political analyst.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn how do you get an honorary doctorate?

If a university beleives you have contributed a significant level of research / furthered a field of study to a certain point, then they can offer an honorary doctorate. Its like saying you've done the equivalent of a PhD thesis but didn't do the PhD student part.