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Steele's trajectory has been improbable. He was born in Prince George County, a Maryland suburb of Washington, and for three years studied to be a Catholic priest. Eventually, he graduated from Georgetown University's Law Center and embarked on a career in corporate law. He also became active in Maryland's Republican Party. As one of the few blacks in the GOP, he stood out at a time when party officials were keenly interested in cultivating African-American support. In 2000, he was elected state GOP chairman, and two years later he was elected lieutenant governor...
...Fairgrade is "cautiously optimistic," says the group's president, Megan McLaughlin, a former Georgetown University admissions officer whose three sons are ages 8, 11 and 13. Her husband is a Fairfax County high school grad, and McLaughlin says her in-laws recall fighting the current grading system before it was implemented in 1981. McLaughlin and others are cautious because the details of the new grading system still need to be ironed...
...Received a B.A. from Bowdoin College (where he played on the basketball team) in 1954 and a law degree from Georgetown in 1960. In between pursuing his degrees, Mitchell enlisted in the army and served as a counter-intelligence officer in Berlin...
...Killefer, 55, is a graduate of Vassar College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, where she earned a master's in business administration. She is married to Georgetown University economics professor Robert Cumby and has two teenage children...
Jones, 65, was born in Kansas City, Mo., and grew up in France. After graduating from Georgetown, he enlisted in the Marines and served in Vietnam as a company commander. He learned his political skills as the Marine liaison to the Senate in the early 1980s. Back in the field in 1991, he led a Marine expeditionary unit into northern Iraq to rescue millions of Kurdish refugees from Saddam Hussein. Two years later, he ran the U.S. aid mission to Bosnia. Jones became the top Marine...