Madeleine Kunin

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Madeleine Kunin
United States Ambassador to Liechtenstein
In office March 14, 1997 – August 16, 1999
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	M. Larry Lawrence
Succeeded by	J. Richard Fredericks
United States Ambassador to Switzerland
In office August 19, 1996 – August 16, 1999
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	M. Larry Lawrence
Succeeded by	Richard Fredericks
United States Deputy Secretary of Education
In office 1993–1996
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	David T. Kearns
Succeeded by	Marshall S. Smith
77th Governor of Vermont
In office January 10, 1985 – January 10, 1991
Lieutenant	Peter Plympton Smith Howard Dean
Preceded by	Richard Snelling
Succeeded by	Richard A. Snelling
75th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
In office January 10, 1979 – January 10, 1983
Governor	Richard A. Snelling
Preceded by	T. Garry Buckley
Succeeded by	Peter Plympton Smith
Member of the Vermont House of Representatives
In office January 5, 1973 – January 5, 1979
Personal details
Born	Madeleine May (1933-09-28) September 28, 1933 (age 90) Zürich, Switzerland
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Arthur Kunin ​ ​ (m. 1959; div. 1995)​ John Hennessey Jr. ​ ​ (m. 2006; died 2018)​
Education	University of Massachusetts Amherst (BA) Columbia University (MA) University of Vermont (MA)

Madeleine Kunin (née May; born September 28, 1933) is a Swiss-born American diplomat, author and politician. She served as the 77th governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor as well as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was also the first Jewish woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state. Since 2003, Kunin has been a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont.^{[1] [2]}