Leecia Roberta Eve is an attorney in New York

New York

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. A resident of Fort Washington, Maryland and former resident of Buffalo, NY, Eve is the daughter of former Assembly

New York State Assembly

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 member Arthur Eve

Arthur Eve

Arthur O. Eve is a retired American politician who served as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly representing districts in...

 and was candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York

Lieutenant Governor of New York

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 during the 2006 election. She was a Senior Policy adviser to U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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 during her 2008 primary campaign for President, and her Maryland political director.

Candidacy

In 2005, she left Clinton's staff and announced her candidacy for lieutenant governor. She received the endorsement of several Harlem political leaders, including Congressman Charles Rangel, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins

David Dinkins

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, former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton

Percy Sutton

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, and former New York Secretary of State Basil Paterson

Basil Paterson

Basil Alexander Paterson , a labor lawyer, is a longtime political leader in New York and Harlem and father of the 55th Governor of New York, David Paterson. His mother was Jamaican, his father Grenadian.-Early life:...

. In January 2006, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer

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, the eventual winner of the general election, governor

Governor of New York

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, announced his selection of State Senate

New York State Senate

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 Minority Leader David Paterson

David Paterson

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 as his running mate for lieutenant governor. Paterson was seriously considering Eve as a replacement for Clinton, when she became United States Secretary of State

United States Secretary of State

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Education/Career

Eve is a graduate of Harvard Law School

Harvard University

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 and was an attorney in Buffalo. She worked as the homeland security adviser to U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...

 after her time as a lawyer. Leecia is also a graduate of City Honors School

City Honors School

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, Smith College

Smith College

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, and The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

John F. Kennedy School of Government

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In the 1990s she served as an aide to then-Senator Joseph Biden. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.