She defeated Engler's Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus by 51% to 47% and became Michigan's first female governor on January 1, 2003.
She was re-elected to a second term in 2006 against Republican businessman Dick De Vos by a large margin and served until January 1, 2011, when she was term-limited.
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She graduated with a BA in 1984 and then with a JD from Harvard Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
She then clerked for Judge Damon Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, became an Assistant U. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan in 1991 and in 1995 she was appointed to the Wayne County Corporation Counsel.
Boyd and Granholm could not stop laughing after watching the video, Boyd said. My hair could've been a nest for an entire family of birds!
As for her new - or at least, newfound- Internet sensation, Granholm is taking it in stride.Liz Boyd, who was Granholm's press secretary when she was governor, said she learned of the video on Thursday and sent it to Granholm, who now hosts her own show - "The War Room" on Current TV."It was the first time she'd seen it since she'd been on the program," said Boyd, noting that no one in Granholm's circle had ever seen it before.In this show, a single woman would be given a choice of three bachelors whom she could talk with, but not see.LANSING, MI - It has been known for years that former Gov.