Condoleezza Rice is in her third year as an owner of the Denver Broncos in 2024 as part of the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group.
A highly-respected public servant, accomplished academic and corporate leader, Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm.
A Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, Rice has served on the school's faculty since 1981. She has won two of the university's highest teaching honors, receiving the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
In 2013, Rice was appointed to the inaugural College Football Playoff Selection Committee, formerly the Bowl Championship Series. She served on the committee until 2017.
From 2005-09, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, becoming the second woman and first Black woman to hold the post. She also worked as President George W. Bush's National Security Advisor from 2001-05 and served on President George H.W. Bush's National Security Council staff from 1989-91.
Rice served as Stanford University's provost from 1993-99, during which time she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As provost, she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and an academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
In 1997, Rice also served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-Integrated Training in the Military.
Rice currently serves on the boards of C3.ai, an AI software company; and Makena Capital Management, a private endowment firm. In addition, she is Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and a trustee of the Aspen Institute.
An active proponent of an extended learning day through after-school programs, Rice in 1991 co-founded the Center for a New Generation. CNG is an innovative, after-school academic enrichment program for students in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, Calif. CNG has since merged with and expanded to several Boys & Girls Clubs of America chapters around the country.
Born in Birmingham, Ala., Rice earned a bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver before receiving a master's degree in the same subject from the University of Notre Dame. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in political science from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Rice has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates.
