Zoë Baird

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Zoë Eliot Baird (born 1952) is a U.S. lawyer. She was Bill Clinton's first unsuccessful nominee for attorney general in 1993. She is now President of the Markle Foundation and on the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution.

Baird withdrew her name from consideration for the attorney general position when it was learned that she had hired illegal aliens as a chauffeur and a nanny. Baird paid $2,900 in fines for the infraction.

Baird, in the past, has worked for General Electric She also was Chief of Staff for Aetna.

She earned a B.A. in political science in 1974 and a J.D. in 1977 from the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley.