Bill Gates's wife, No. 3 on Forbes magazine's list of the most powerful women of the year.
Early life and education
Melinda Ann Frenchwas born on August 15, 1964 in Dallas,Texas.She is the second of four childrento Raymond Joseph French Jr., an aerospace engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland,a homemaker. French has an older sister and two youngerbrothers.
French, a Roman Catholic,attended St. Monica Catholic School, where shewas the top student in her class year.
She graduated as valedictorian from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982. She earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke Universityin 1986 and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1987.At Duke, French was a memberof the kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Beta Rho Chapter.
Personal life
Shortly after graduating from college, she joined Microsoft and participated in the development of many of Microsoft's multimedia products, including Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia.
She met Bill Gates while working at Microsoft. In 1994, she married Gates in a private ceremony held in Lanai,Hawaii. Shortly thereafter, she left Microsoft to focus on starting and raising her family. Her last position there was General Manager of Information Products. Melinda and Bill Gates have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine Gates (born 1996) and Phoebe Adele Gates (born 2002), and son Rory John Gates (born 1999). The family resides in an estate on the shore of Lake Washington near Seattle.
Gates served as a member of Duke University's board of trustees from 1996 to 2003. She attends Bilderberg Group conferences and holds a seat on the board of directors of theWashington Postcompany. She retired from the board of Drugstore.com in August 2006 to spend more time working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As of 2014, Melinda and Bill Gates have donated US$28 billion to the Foundation.Gates and her husband were floated as possible vice presidential picks, according to an email from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.
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