Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton served as the First Lady of the United States to the 42nd President, Bill Clinton. She loved sports and her church, and was a member of the National Honor Society, and a student leader. Her parents encouraged her to study hard and to pursue any career that interested her. As an undergraduate at Wellesley College, Hillary mixed academic excellence with school government. Speaking at graduation, she said, “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”. Speaking at graduation, she said, “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”. In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action, interned with children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman, and met Bill Clinton.