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Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician, educator, author, and political commentator who served as Attorney General and 47th Governor of the State of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, Granholm became Michigan's first female governor on January 1, 2003 when she succeeded Governor John Engler. Granholm was reelected on November 7, 2006 and was sworn in for her second – and, owing to term limits, final – term on January 1, 2007. She was a member of the presidential transition team for Barack Obama before he assumed office on January 20, 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Despite presidential losses, women in politics score gains )〕 After leaving public office, Granholm took a position at the University of California, Berkeley and, with her husband Daniel Mulhern, coauthored ''A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Future'', released in September 2011.〔() 〕 Later she became host of ''The War Room with Jennifer Granholm'' on Current TV.
==Early life, education, and early career==
Granholm was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Shirley Alfreda (née Dowden) and Victor Ivar Granholm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ancestry of Jennifer Granholm )〕 Granholm's paternal grandfather, who immigrated to Canada in the 1930s, came from Robertsfors, Sweden, where his father was mayor.〔Sandberg, Hans ("Jennifer Granholm: A Governor Traces Her Swedish Roots" ). ''Currents'', Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce, Fall 2007.〕 The former Minister for Enterprise and Energy and former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Maud Olofsson, lives in Robertsfors, and when the two met in Sweden, it was revealed that Olofsson's husband is a relative of Granholm.
Granholm's paternal grandmother was an emigrant from Norway. Granholm's family moved to California when she was four.〔 She grew up in Anaheim, San Jose, and San Carlos.〔 Granholm graduated from San Carlos High School in 1977.〔 She won the Miss San Carlos beauty pageant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) )〕 As a young adult she attempted to launch a Hollywood acting career but was unsuccessful and abandoned her efforts at the age of 21.〔''Detroit Free Press'', 11/6/02, "Shes' the Boss – Granholm wins a place in history as Michigan Elects the state's first female governor".〕 In 1978 she appeared on ''The Dating Game'', with a recently surfacing. She held jobs as a tour guide at Universal Studios and in customer service at the ''Los Angeles Times'' and was the first female tour guide at Marine World Africa USA in Redwood City, piloting boats with 25 tourists aboard.〔 In 1980, at the age of 21 years, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen, worked for John Anderson's independent run for President of the United States, and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1984 Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Political Science and French. Granholm then earned a Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Law School, also with honors. At Harvard Law, Granholm served as Editor-in-Chief of the ''Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review'', the leading progressive law journal in the United States.
She clerked for Judge Damon Keith, a Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In 1990 she became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. In 1994 she was appointed to the Wayne County Corporation Counsel.
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