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Heather Ann Wilson〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/wilson.htm〕 (born December 30, 1960) is President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress.〔See ("Women in Congress: Heather A. Wilson" ). Helen Douglas Mankin was a Red Cross civilian nurse who served in World War I, but did not have veteran status. Catherine Small Long, a member of the Navy WAVES, was elected to complete the term of her husband who died in office and did not run for re-election.〕 While in Congress, Wilson focused on national security issues, serving on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the United States House Committee on Armed Services. She also focused on health care, energy, manufacturing and trade, and telecommunication, serving on the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce.〔 She opted not to run for re-election to the House in 2008 and sought the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Senator Pete Domenici but finished second in the Republican primary to Congressman Steve Pearce, who then lost the general election to Democrat Tom Udall. On March 7, 2011, she announced another run for Senate in 2012 to replace retiring Senator Jeff Bingaman, but lost the general election to Martin Heinrich, her successor in the House of Representatives. In April 2013 she was selected to be President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology by the South Dakota Board of Regents.〔http://www.sdsmt.edu/News/Mines-Family-Welcomes-Wilson-Family/〕 She is the eighteenth president, and first female president, of SD Mines. ==Early life== Wilson was born in Keene, New Hampshire, the daughter of Martha Lou, nurse, and George Douglas "Doug" Wilson, a commercial pilot and member of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Wilson grew up around aviation and hoped to become a pilot like her father and grandfather before her.〔 Her paternal grandparents were born in Scotland.〔 Her grandfather, George Gordon "Scotty" Wilson, flew for the Royal Flying Corps in World War I and emigrated to America in 1922 where he was a barnstormer and airport operator in the 1920s and 1930s. He served as a courier pilot during World War II and started the New Hampshire Civil Air Patrol where he was a Wing Commander. Her father started flying at age 13 and enlisted in the United States Air Force after high school. Wilson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford during the sixth year that women were permitted to apply and completed her education at Jesus College, University of Oxford, earning a Master of Philosophy and D.Phil. in international relations by 1985.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Wilson, Heather )〕 In 1990, Oxford University Press published her book, ''International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements'',〔ISBN 978-0-19-825662-5, ISBN 0-19-825662-0 (【引用サイトリンク】title=International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements )〕 which won the 1988 Paul Reuter Prize of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Paul Reuter Prize is awarded for a major work in the sphere of international humanitarian law. Wilson won the second Reuter prize ever awarded. An Air Force officer for seven years, Wilson was a negotiator and political adviser to the U.S. Air Force in England, and a defense planning officer for NATO in Belgium, where her work included arms control negotiations. 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「Heather Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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