❍ Her prominent accomplishments can be traced right from her days at Yale, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. ❍ In 1973, whilst doing her post graduation, she joined the Children's Defense Fund as a staff attorney and Carnegie Council on Children as a consultant. ❍ In 1974, she was invited to join the impeachment inquiry staff of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate scandal. ❍ She joined the law faculty of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, becoming one of the only two female faculty members at the institute. ❍ She founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and also served on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital. She started the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth. ❍ She was named the Arkansas' Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas' Young Mother of the Year in 1984. ❍ She was named among the top 100 lawyers by the National Law Journal twice, first in 1988 and then in 1991. ❍ When she was the First Lady of the US, she played a crucial role in the passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Adoption and Safe Families Act. ❍ It was the Clinton Health Care, her major initiative that failed to take flight, which laid the foundation for the Affordable Care Act. ❍ On November 7, 2000, she won the US Senate election in New York defeating Congressman Rick Lazio. In the process, she became the first First Lady to run for elected office and win in the state of New York. ❍ She endorsed bills to extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11, pay for city projects in response to 9/11, assist land mine victims in other countries, assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care, and designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the Wilderness Preservation System. ❍ She passed resolutions to name courthouses after Thurgood Marshall and James L. Watson, and post offices after John A. O'Shea and Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda. ❍ She voted to designate August 7, 2003, as the National Purple Heart Recognition Day, and swore to support its goals and ideals. On a separate occasion, she swore to support the goals and ideals of the Better Hearing and Speech Month. ❍ She passed resolutions to establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site, establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program, and recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. ❍ She passed resolutions to honor the respective lives and achievements of late Alexander Hamilton, Shirley Chisholm, John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford. ❍ She announced that she would be running for the Democratic National Committee's nominee for the 2008 Presidential elections, with the statement on her website reading: I'm in. And I'm in to win. She even took a lead, before losing to Obama, who went on to become the 44th President of the United States. ❍ Hillary Clinton had the distinction of being the most traveled Secretary of State, visiting an impressive 112 countries. One can dismiss her as a 'globe-trotting diplomat', but that would be naive if we are to consider that favorable opinions about the US had plummeted during George Bush's second term as the President and the scars in relationships were not minor enough to be repaired on the phone. ❍ On January 21, 2009, she took the oath of office of Secretary of State. In yet another first, she became the first former First Lady to serve in the US Cabinet. Earlier, she had the distinction of being the only second First Lady of the US to take part in policy making; first being Eleanor Roosevelt. ❍ When Dmitry Medvedev became the President of Russia (2008 - 2012), Clinton, as the Secretary of the State, played a crucial role in trying to improve ties with Russia by providing them the 'Reset Button'. While things did look rosy in the beginning, all went downhill when Vladamir Putin returned to power. ❍ It was her last-minute intervention that led to the signing of the historic Turkish-Armenian accord, which had almost fallen through after differences cropped up between the two signatory parties at the last moment, thus making peace between Turkey and Armenia. ❍ She was at the forefront when the US went into a damage control mode in the aftermath of the Cablegate, wherein cables containing diplomatic analysis from world leaders and the assessment of the leaders of host countries by US diplomats were made public by WikiLeaks. ❍ In 2011, she visited Myanmar (Burma), which laid the foundation for re-engagement with the Southeast Asian country. This was the first time a high-level American diplomat had visited the country since 1955. ❍ In 2012, she played a crucial role in negotiating ceasefire between Israel and Hamas with the help of Egypt. Also, she had an important role to play in tightening sanctions on Iran, as a part of which several countries reduced their purchase of Iranian oil. When Hillary Clinton bid farewell to the State Department in 2013, it was the first time in 34 years―since entering the Arkansas governor's mansion in 1979―that she began leading the life of a private citizen. Now that must have been a welcome break before the upcoming Presidential Polls. After her announcement earlier this month, she'll definitely be on her toes for the next few months. So the question now is, will history repeat itself, or will it be a new chapter in American history. That, we'll have to wait and watch.