(b. November 19, 1926) Political scientist and foreign policy adviser, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1981–1985).

Jeane Kirkpatrick is known as an ardent conservative who became famous in the 1980s for the Kirkpatrick Doctrine, which advocated support of governments around the world that stood in opposition to communism. She served as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign for the presidency and as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1981–1985) during his administration. Kirkpatrick's stated philosophy is to "aid your friends, not your enemies."

Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, on November 19, 1926, and graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1948. She earned a master's degree in political science from Columbia University. Her main adviser at Columbia was Franz Neumann, a Marxist, and Kirkpatrick was for a time a member of the youth section of the Socialist Party.

In 1952 she began work for...