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Dean Lee A. Feinstein

Every prospective employer wants to hire . . . the striver student.

A noted scholar-practitioner, Lee Feinstein has served two secretaries of state and a secretary of defense, worked at the nation's top research institutes, including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution, and has taught law and political science at the University of Georgia, the George Washington University, and the City University of New York.

He was President Obama's first U.S. Ambassador to Poland, national security director to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign, and senior foreign policy advisor to President Obama during the general election.