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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was appointed United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations by President Ronald Reagan in January, 1981, making her the first woman to serve as chief United States representative to the world body. She also serves as a member of President Reagan's Cabinet. |
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Prior to her appointment to the United States Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Kirkpatrick was Leavey University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. From 1967 to 1978 she was a professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown and from 1962 to 1967 an assistant professor at Trinity |
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College, Washington, D.C. For six months in 1970 she |
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was a professorial lecturer at the Institute for American Universities at the University of Aix-Marseil1es, Aix-en-Provence, France. She has also been a research associate at the Fund for the Republic (1956-57), George Washington University (1954-56), the Government Affairs Institute (1953-54) and was a research analyst at the U.S. State Department (1957-52). |
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A prolific writer, and researcher, Ambassador Kirkpatrick has produced numerous books, monographs and articles on American Political issues, and American foreign policy. Her most recent books and monographs include: The New Presidential Elite, Russell Sage Foundation, 1976; Political Woman, Basic Books, 1974; Leader and Vanguard in Mass Society: A-Study of Peronist Argentina, MIT Press, 1971; and Dismantling the Parties: Reflections on Party Reform and Party Decomposition, American Enterprise Institute, 1973. |
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Through the years Ambassadar Kirkpatrick has lectured extensively in the U.S. at conferences and forums on political and international issues. She has also participated in the programs of the U.S. International Communications Agency (ICA) and the Department of State in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. |
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Ambassador Kirkpatrick has been active in professional organizations including the American and the International Political Science Associations. She has served as a member of the International Research Council, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University 2nd the Board of Directors, Ethics and Public Policy Center, also at Georgetown. She has also served on the Board of Trustees, Robert Taft Institute of Government, as a member of the Maryland State Board of Education, Values Education Commission 2nd as co-chairman, Task Force on the Presidential Election Process, Twentieth Century Fund. |
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Ambassador Kirkpatrick has participated in Democratic Party politics as Vice Chairman, Coalition for a Democratic Majority, and as a member of the Democratic National Convention's National Commission on Party Structure and Presidential Nomination (The Winograd Commission) 1975-1973. During the 1980 Presidential Campaign, she was a member of President Reagan's foreign policy advisory group. |
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A noted academic, Ambassador Kirkpatrick has received many honors and grants which include Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Mount Vernon College, Washington, D.C., 1978; Distinguished Alumnae Award, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1978; Twentieth Century Fund and Russell Sage Foundation, grant for research on political conventions and women in Americ2D politics, 1973 - 1974; National Endowment for the Humanities, 1970-1971; Andreas Foundation Grant, 1965, for research on Argentina; Earhart Fellowship, 1959-1960 and French Government Fellowship, 1952-1953. |
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Ambassador Kirkpatrick was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. She earned undergraduate degrees from Stephens College, 1946 and Sarnard College, 1948. In 1950 she received her M.A. degree and in 1968 her Ph.D. degree, in political science from Columbia University. She did post graduate work at the Institute of Political Science, University of Paris, under a French Government Fellowship in 1952-53. |
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In addition to English, she speaks French and Spanish. |
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The Ambassador is married to Evron Kirkpatrick, longtime Executive Director of the American Political Science Association and now acting Director of the Center far Hemispheric Studies, American Enterprise Institute. They have three sons, Douglas and John who are now in Georgetown University Law School and Stuart who attends Kenyon College in Ohio. |
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