Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States. She is the first woman to hold the office. As the wife of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2008, when she was elected to the Presidency. She was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009.