| 1937 | - | Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1959 | - | B.A., Political Science, Wellesley College |
| 1968, 1976 | - | M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University |
| 1976-1978 | - | Chief Legislative Assistant to Sen. Edmund S. Muskie |
| 1978-1981 | - | National Security Council & White House Staff Member |
| 1981-1982 | - | Senior Fellow in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1981-1982 | - | Senior Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution |
| 1982-1992 | - | Research Professor of International Affairs; Director, Women in Foreign Service Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
| 1989-1992 | - | President, Center for National Policy |
| 1993-1996 | - | U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN; Member, National Security Council |
| 1997-2001 | - | U.S. Secretary of State |
| 2001-2004 | - | Chairman, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs |
| 2003 | - | Madam Secretary: A Memoir published |