Zoë Baird
| Zoë Baird | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 20, 1952 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
Paul Gewirtz (1986–2008) William Budinger (2010–present) |
| Education |
University of California, Berkeley (BA, JD) |
Zoë Eliot Baird (born June 20, 1952) is an American lawyer who is president of the Markle Foundation. She is known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993, which arose when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States, but she withdrew her nomination when it was discovered she had hired illegal immigrants and failed to pay taxes. In the last 15 years, she has led the Markle Foundation, which has worked primarily through task forces to achieve broad laws that modernize sectors like health care and the national security community.
Baird earned an A.B. with a joint degree in political science and communications and public policy, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a J.D. in 1977 from the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. Baird clerked for U.S. District Judge Albert C. Wollenberg from 1977 to 1978 and worked as Attorney-Advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1979 to 1980. She was Associate Counsel to President of the United States Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981.
Baird was a partner at the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, in Washington, DC, from 1981 to 1986. She was counselor and staff executive at General Electric from 1986 to 1990. Baird was senior vice president and general counsel of Aetna from 1992 to 1996. In 1997, she served as senior research associate and senior visiting scholar at Yale Law School where she worked on the growth of terrorism.
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