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Cindy Lou Hensley McCain (born May 20, 1954) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and humanitarian, and the wife of United States Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona. She was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, as the daughter of wealthy beer distributor Jim Hensley. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, she became a special education teacher. She married John McCain in 1980 and they had three children together, in addition to adopting another. From 1988 to 1995, she founded and operated a nonprofit organization, the American Voluntary Medical Team, which organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-stricken or war-torn third-world areas. During this time, she became addicted to painkillers for several years and resorted to having a physician write illegal prescriptions on her behalf. She reached an agreement with the government in which no charges were filed against her. Upon her father's death in 2000, she inherited majority control and became chair of Hensley & Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the United States. She participated in both of her husband's presidential campaigns and, in 2008, drew both positive and negative scrutiny for her appearance, demeanor, wealth, spending habits, and financial obligations. She continues to be an active philanthropist and serves on the boards of Operation Smile, Eastern Congo Initiative, CARE and HALO Trust, frequently making overseas trips in conjunction with their activities. During the 2010s she has become prominent in the fight against human trafficking. ==Early life and education== Cindy Lou Hensley was born in Phoenix, Arizona,〔 to James Hensley, who founded Hensley & Co., and Marguerite "Smitty" Hensley (née Johnson). She was raised as the only child of her parents' second marriages and grew up on Phoenix's North Central Avenue in affluent circumstances.〔〔 (Dixie L. Burd, who is the daughter of Marguerite Smith through a prior relationship, is her half-sister, as is Kathleen Hensley Portalski, daughter of Jim Hensley and his first wife, Mary Jeanne Parks.〔) Cindy Hensley was named Junior Rodeo Queen of Arizona in 1968. She went to Central High School〔 in Phoenix, where she was named Best Dressed as a senior and graduated in 1972.〔 Hensley enrolled at the University of Southern California.〔 She joined the socially conservative Kappa Alpha Theta sorority as a freshman,〔 〕 and had many leadership roles in the house during her four years there. Hensley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in education in 1976.〔〔 She continued on at USC, and received a Master of Arts in special education in 1978.〔〔 There she participated in a movement therapy pilot program that laid the way for a standard treatment for children with severe disabilities; she published the work ''Movement Therapy: A Possible Approach'' in 1978. Declining a role in the family business,〔 she worked for a year as a special education teacher dealing with children with Down syndrome and other disabilities at Agua Fria High School in Avondale, Arizona.〔〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cindy McCain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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