Linda Chavez is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor. Chavez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the... daughter of Velma and Rudolph Chavez, a house painter. She is of Spanish/Mexican descent on her father's side and English and Irish ancestry on her mother's side. Chavez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. She attended graduate school at UCLA. She is married to Christopher Gersten, former Bush Administration official, and is the mother of three adult sons, David, Pablo, and Rudy.
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