Melinda ann french biography
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Melinda French Gates
1964-present
Latest News: Melinda French Gates to Release New Memoir The Next Day
Melinda French Gates is set to release her first memoir, The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward. According to a press release, the book will provide a “rare window” into the 60-year-old philanthropist's life.
“Over the last few years, I’ve experienced a lot of change — some of it exciting, some of it painful — so I’ve done a lot of thinking and learning about transitions,” Melinda told People magazine in October 2024. “I write a lot about the people and ideas that have been helpful to me during moments of uncertainty, and the process of revisiting all that wisdom I’ve relied on has made me appreciate it even more.”
Some of these transitional moments include going to college, becoming a mother, and leaving the Gates Foundation, which she started with her ex-husband Bill Gates. The Pivotal Ventures founder said she hopes her memoir will be “useful” to
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Melinda Gates
By Kerri Lee Alexander, NWHM Fellow | 2018-2020
As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, Melinda Gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy. Co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she is not only a tech-savvy businesswoman, but she is also an advokat for women’s equality. In early 2019, Gates published her first book entitled, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.
Melinda Gates was born as Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964. The second of four children, Gates grew up in Dallas, Texas with her family. Her father Raymond Joseph French Jr. was an aerospace engineer that worked on the Apollo space schema, and her mother Elaine Agnes Amerland was a stay-at-home mom. When Gates was 14 years old, her father purchased the Apple II computer, which was one of the first computers sold to consumers. Gates learned computer programming and convinced her parents to put it in her bedroom so
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Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann French GatesDBE (née French; August 15, 1964) is an American business woman who once worked at Microsoft. She was married to Bill Gates. They met while she was working for Microsoft.
She graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987. She was awarded an honorary damehood (knighthood for women) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2014 for her services to charity and international development. As an American citizen, she cannot be called "Dame Melinda", but can use the letters "DBE" after her name. She is currently a philanthropist and is running the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" with her ex-husband. She has three children : Phoebe Adele Gates, Rory John Gates, and Jennifer Katharine Gates. In May 2006, she received an award from the Gates Foundation.
On May 3, 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates announced that they had decided to divorce after 27 years of marriage, and 34 years as a couple. The couple said they will contin