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Janet Napolitano

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Janet Ann Napolitano (; born November 29, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer. She is on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley since 2015. Napolitano served as 20th president of the University of California from 2013 to 2020, as the United States secretary of homeland security under the first Obama administration from 2009 to 2013, as the 21st governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009, as the 23rd attorney general of Arizona from 1999 to 2003, and as the United States attorney for the District of Arizona from 1993 to 1997. Forbes ranked her as the world's ninth most powerful woman in 2012 and eighth most powerful woman in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2024). Janet Napolitano is the 17,611th most popular politician (down from 17,457th in 2024), the 12,567th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,398th in 2019) and the 951st most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Janet Napolitano ranks 17,611 out of 19,576. Before her are Mohamed Hussein Roble, Nick Griffin, Abdulla Shahid, Nellie Connally, Tom Ridge, and Paramanga Ernest Yonli. After her are Jaume Collboni, Evelyn Wever-Croes, Gary Herbert, Leo Amery, Ahmad Massoud, and Maria Damanaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Janet Napolitano ranks 566. Before her are Ana Pastor Julián, Dagfinn Høybråten, Elżbieta Witek, Ali Divandari, Ralph Brown, and Ammar Souayah. After her are Norbert Növényi, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Claude Onesta, Rui Veloso, Jenifer Lewis, and Zhivko Gospodinov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Janet Napolitano ranks 12,571 out of 20,380. Before her are Mona Freeman (1926), Chris Carmack (1980), Ruth Etting (1896), M. Shadows (1981), Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872), and Anthony Grafton (1950). After her are Kim Greist (1958), Eddie Johnson (1984), Wayne Sermon (1984), Ellen McLain (1952), Will Forte (1970), and Erle C. Kenton (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Janet Napolitano ranks 951. Before her are Estes Kefauver (1903), Mike Beebe (1946), John W. Davis (1873), Paul Nitze (1907), Nellie Connally (1919), and Tom Ridge (1945). After her are Gary Herbert (1947), Patrick M. Shanahan (1962), Robert P. Patterson (1891), Raúl Grijalva (1948), Fitzhugh Lee (1835), and Tom Daschle (1947).

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