Stephen Hadley

2005-

Condoleezza Rice

2001-2005

Samuel L. Berger

1997-2001

W. Anthony Lake

1993-1997

Brent Scowcroft

1989-1993

Colin L. Powell

1987-1989

Frank C. Carlucci

1986-1987

John M. Poindexter

1985-1986

Robert C. McFarlane

1983-1985

William P. Clark

1982-1983

Richard V. Allen

1981-1982

Zbigniew Brzezinski

1977-1981

Brent Scowcroft

1975-1977

Henry A. Kissinger

1968-1975

Walt W. Rostow

1966-1968

McGeorge Bundy

1961-1966

Gordon Gray

1958-1961

Robert Cutler

1957-1958

Dillon Anderson

1955-1956

Robert Cutler

1953-1955

James L. Lay*

1950-1953

Sidney Souers*

1947-1949

November 14, 1954

Born in Birmingham, Alabama

1965

First black student to attend music classes at Birmingham Southern Conservatory of Music

1969

Moves to Denver, Colorado, and attends an integrated school for the first time

1971

Graduates from high school; finishes first year of university

1974

Graduates cum laude from the University of Denver

1975

Receives M.A. in government from the University of Notre Dame

1981

Receives Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Denver

1981

Assistant professor of political science at Stanford University

1984

Publishes Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1963 (Princeton University Press)

1986

Publishes The Gorbachev Era (with Alexander Dallin; Stanford Alumni Press)

1986-1987

Special assistant to the director-Joint Chiefs of Staff position at the Pentagon through Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship

1987

Promoted to associate professor of political science at Stanford

1989-1991

Bush administration posts as director of Soviet and East European affairs, special assistant to the president for national security affairs, and senior director for Soviet affairs at the National Security Council

1991

Joins Boards of Directors at Chevron, TransAmerica Corporation, Hewlett-Packard

1992

Gives address at the Republican National Convention

May 1993

Promoted to full professor at Stanford

September 1993

Named provost of Stanford University

1994

Elected to the Board of Trustees at the University of Notre Dame

1995

Publishes Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (with Philip Zelikow; Harvard University Press)

1995

Joins Board of Directors at J. P. Morgan

1999

Joins Board of Directors at Charles Schwab

July 1999

Steps down as provost of Stanford; foreign policy advisor for George W. Bush’s presidential campaign

2000

Gives address at the Republican National Convention

December 2000

Named national security advisor by President-elect George W. Bush

January 2001

Sworn in as national security advisor

April 2004

Testifies before 9/11 Commission

January 2005

Sworn in as Secretary of State