The family resides in an earth-sheltered mansion overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. They have three children: Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe Gates. In 1994, she married Gates in a private ceremony held in Lanai, Hawaii. Melinda began dating Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in 1987, after meeting him at a trade fair in New York. Melinda and her then husband, Bill, in 2009 The book highlights the failure to acknowledge women's unpaid work, drawing on feminist economist Dame Marilyn Waring's book If Women Counted. Former President Barack Obama starred in a comedy sketch in order to promote it. In 2019, French Gates debuted as an author with the book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. In 2015, French Gates founded Pivotal Ventures as a separate, independent organization to identify, help develop and implement innovative solutions to problems affecting U.S. By 2014, Bill and Melinda had donated US$28 billion of their personal wealth to the Foundation. This has helped her work become recognized while also shaping and delivering goals of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since 2000, French Gates has been active in the public eye, stating "As I thought about strong women of history, I realized that they stepped out in some way". She was also on the board of directors at but left in August 2006 to focus on philanthropic projects. She attends the annual Bilderberg Group conference and has held a seat on the Board of Directors of Graham Holdings (formerly The Washington Post Company) since 2004. įrench Gates served as a member of Duke University's Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2003. She left Microsoft that year, reportedly, to focus on starting a family. In the early 1990s, French Gates was appointed as General Manager of Information Products, a position which she held until 1996. She worked on Expedia, which became one of the most popular travel booking websites. These included Cinemania, Encarta, Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Money, Works (Macintosh) and Word. After graduation, she became a marketing manager with Microsoft, being responsible for the development of multimedia products. Career įrench Gates's first job was tutoring children in mathematics and computer programming. At Duke, French was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Beta Rho Chapter. She earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986 and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1987.
įrench graduated as valedictorian from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982. It was from this experience she developed her interest in computer games and the BASIC programming language.
Bauer who advocated teaching the students at the all-girls school computer science. At age 14, French was introduced to the Apple II by her father, and a school teacher named Mrs. Monica Catholic School, where she was the top student in her class. She has an older sister and two younger brothers. She is the second of four children born to Raymond Joseph French Jr., an aerospace engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker.
Melinda Ann French was born on August 15, 1964, in Dallas, Texas.
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