What is Gale Norton?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Gale Norton |image = Gale Norton.jpeg |office = 48th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] |president = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start = January 31, 2001 |term_end = March 31, 2006 |predecessor = [[Bruce Babbitt]] |successor = [[Dirk Kempthorne]] |office1 = 35th [[Colorado Attorney General|Attorney General of Colorado]] |governor1 = [[Roy Romer]] |term_start1 = January 8, 1991 |term_end1 = January 12, 1999 |predecessor1 = [[Duane Woodard]] |successor1 = [[Ken Salazar]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|3|11}} |birth_place = [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]], Kansas, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<br>[[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] (Formerly) |education = [[University of Denver]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]]) }} '''Gale Ann Norton''' (born March 11, 1954) is an American politician and lawyer. She was the 48th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] from 2001 to 2006 under President [[George W. Bush]]. She was the first woman to hold the position.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-norton17-2009sep17,0,6215749.story|title=Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is focus of corruption probe|last1=Tankersley|first1=Jim|date=September 17, 2009|work=Los Angeles Times|last2=Meyer|first2=Josh}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Norton, Gale}} [[Category:1954 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:United States Secretaries of the Interior]] [[Category:Lawyers from Wichita, Kansas]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Colorado]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Wichita, Kansas]] [[Category:Politicians from Colorado]] [[Category:Politicians from Wichita, Kansas]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Lawyers from Colorado]] {{US-bio-stub}} {{USSecInterior}}