‘1st Woman President’ series adds to lineup

Journalist Eleanor Clift and two former governors have been added to the lineup of the Dole Institute of Politics’ presidential lecture series “The First Woman President.”

Clift, author of “Madam President: Women Blazing the Leadership Trail,” will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 12, and former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and former Gov. Jane Swift, R-Mass., will appear in a roundtable discussion moderated by political activist Barbara Lee at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28.

The lecture series kicks off at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 with Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate and U.S. ambassador to New Zealand before her 2004 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Clift is a contributing editor at Newsweek.