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Janet Napolitano
Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, United
States
Age: 55
Residence: Washington, DC
Country of Citizenship: United States
Education: Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Vir-
ginia; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Santa Clara University
Marital Status: Single
Profile
The first female head of the Department of Homeland
Security, a position she took after serving as the gover-
nor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009, Janet Napolitano is at
the helm of the third largest department in U.S. politics.
The past 12 months have put Homeland Security in the
spotlight, particularly in the glare of June’s SCOTUS
decisions on Arizona immigration policy and Attorney
General Eric Holder’s “Fast and Furious” hot potato.
Voted Most Likely to Succeed in high school in 1975,
Napolitano has a history in local and state-level politics
and law enforcement, but says moving to the national
stage was a natural progression. “You’ve got to widen
your scope and shift priorities,” she says, “to keep the
nation’s borders secure.”
Sheryl Sandberg
COO, Facebook
Age: 43
Source of Wealth: Facebook
Residence: Atherton, CA
Country of Citizenship: United States
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard Uni-
versity; Master of Business Administration, Harvard
University
Marital Status: Married
Children: 2
Profile
After four years as Facebook’s COO - and shepherding
the company through its much anticipated and critiqued
$100 billion IPO in May - Sandberg was named to
the social network’s board of directors in June. She is
Facebook’s first female board member and owns nearly
$1 billion of unvested stock in the company. The Har-
vard MBA served as chief of staff for the U.S. Treasury
Department under President Bill Clinton, and managed
Google’s online global sales and operations as a vice
president. One of few prominent women in tech, Sand-
berg has become the torch-bearer for a generation of
women hoping to balance high-profile jobs with moth-
erhood, an increasingly fraught issue in 2012. “I don’t
believe in ‘having it all,’” she says. “But I do believe
in women and men having both a successful career and
family. The more women we get into positions of power,
the more likely we’ll get that.”
* List compiled by Forbes Magazine