Christie Bell Vilsack, a 1972 graduate of Kirkland College, and Iowa's First Lady, will be a primetime, 7-11 p.m., speaker at the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday, July 27. The convention will be held July 26-29 in Boston. Vilsack will address 4,353 delegates and 611 alternates representing each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands and Democrats Abroad.
Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack was on the short list of potential Kerry running mates and is a 1972 graduate of Hamilton. The Vilsacks' son, Jess, graduated from Hamilton in 2000 and is an attorney working for the U.S. District Court in Iowa.
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