


She served in that position until 1981 when President Jimmy Carter left office. She worked as an aide to Senator Edmund Muskie from 1976 to 1978, before serving as a staff member on the National Security Council under Zbigniew Brzezinski. Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, writing her thesis on the Prague Spring. Her father, diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, Colorado, and she became a U.S. īorn in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United States after the 1948 communist coup d'état when she was eleven years old. A member of the Democratic Party, Albright was the first woman to hold that post. Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001.
