While United States Secretary of State
- Newsweek ranked her as the 13th most powerful person on the planet, and the most powerful American woman, in its "Global Elite" for 2009.
- In 2009, Clinton received the Global Trailblazer award from Vital Voices Global Partnership, for "her passionate commitment to promoting women's rights and securing justice for all people around the world."
- For the fifth time, Clinton was named by TIME magazine in 2009 as one of the most 100 influential people in the world.
- On May 13, 2009, Clinton received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from New York University and spoke at their 177th commencement at new Yankee Stadium.
- On May 18, 2009, Clinton received Barnard College's highest award, the Barnard Medal of Distinction, as she spoke at their commencement.
- On May 25, 2009, Clinton received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Yale University, from whose law school she had graduated three dozen years earlier.
- Also on May 25, 2009, Clinton received an award from the National Coordinated Effort of Hellenes, for "unprecedented steps taken in the right direction on Hellenic and Orthodox issues".
- Forbes listed her as the 36th most powerful woman in the world in 2009.
- On October 5, 2010, Secretary Clinton was given the George McGovern Leadership Award by the World Food Programme, for "her commitment and visionary approach to ending global hunger."
- In November 2010, Time magazine named Clinton one of the 25 most powerful women of the past century.
- In 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, Clinton was named by Americans in Gallup's most admired man and woman poll as the woman around the world they most admired. The win in 2012 was her eleventh in a row and seventeenth overall.
- On June 2, 2011, Secretary Clinton was given the George C. Marshall Foundation Award for a career of distinguished public service, and in particular, "for her dignity and integrity of character, for her devotion to creating and perpetuating free and democratic institutions, and for promoting appropriate economic development that will allow them to flourish."
- In April 2012, Clinton was named to the 2012 Time 100.
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