Known as the "Iron Lady", Ellen Johnson-Sirelaf is not only Liberia's first truly democratic president but its first female head of state and the world's first ever black woman head of state. She received a B.b.c in Accounting from Madison Business College, an economics diploma from the University of Colorado and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard. Sentanced to 10 years of prison for standing against injustice she was released early and went to work as an economist for the Worldbank and Citibank in Africa. She was inaugurated January 16, 2006.
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