UVA Miller Center Creates New Hillary

A longtime Northern California finance executive, David Colin Burke manages the specialty finance company Selby Lane, LLC, as chairman and chief executive officer. With a strong philanthropic and community focus, David Colin Burke is a sponsor of the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law International Human Rights Clinic and a member of the board of the Miller Center.

In December 2020, the center announced the launch of an oral history project that focuses on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former US senator, secretary of state, and first lady. This initiative aims to address a relative dearth of scholarship on Clinton's career, despite the high-level positions she held and her Democratic Party nomination in 2016 for President.

The initial project phase will focus on Clinton’s years as secretary of state and involve interviews with more than 70 people, including past staff members, leaders of nongovernmental organizations, and ministers and heads of state. In addition, Hillary Clinton has committed to sitting for a number of interviews and discussing her time in service as the chief diplomat of the United States. With the Miller Center’s director of presidential studies at the helm, the project seeks to combine “complexity and candor” in ways that will inform generations of diplomats, scholars, policymakers, and students.