Sarah Louise Palin, an American commentator and politician, was born in Sandpoint, Idaho on February 11, 1964.

The Anchorage Daily News has called her“one of the most popular local politicians in America." and "the Joan of Arc of Alaska politics".

On 29th August, 1988, Sarah married her high school lover, Todd Palin, and helped in running Todd's commercial fishing business.

Her political career started in 1992, when she was appointed to the Wasilla, Alaska city council. From 1996-2002, she was Alaska's mayor. Becoming a mayor, she started to make staffing changes. She asked for the updated resumes and resignation letters from librarian Mary Ellen Emmons, finance director Duane Dvorak, public works director Jack Felton and Wasilla police chief Irl Stambaugh and also eliminated the position of museum director. As promised during campaign, she reduced her own salary by 10%, from $68,000 to $61,200. Later in 1999, the City Council had upraised her salary back to $68,000. Sarah Palin used to keep a jar with the names of Wasilla occupants and residents on her desk, and once in every week she use to pull a name from it and call up the person. She would ask: "How's the city doing?". As a mayor, Palin had cut property taxes and elevated the city sales tax by half of a percent in order to put more money into public safety and to build a famous sports complex. According to the independent watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, Mayor Sarah had also efficaciously used the system of congressional earmarks, collecting $26.9 million. During 2006, she became the first Governor of Alaska. During the first 20 months in office, she emphasized on Energy. She successfully supervised the legislation allowing the construction a $40 billion natural gas pipeline. From windfall state oil revenues, she issued approval for $1,200 checks for every Alaskan and also the $2,000 annual dividend checks. Though Sarah got an opposition from oil companies, she pioneered the windfall tax, serving to cement her place on economic reform. Sarah also curbed excessive government spending.

With an emphasis on openness and ethics in government, Sarah's administration focused on several fields such as transportation, public safety, education, civil rights, crime, drugs, environment, energy and oil, foreign policy, etc. As a conservative protestant, Palin also served as an advocate and supported the notion that creationism, the idea that life was created by a deity, must also be taught in public schools along with the curriculum. She had also backed Alaska's decision to reform its constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage and also expressed her disapproval for embryonic stem cell research. On the energy front, Sarah queried the validity behind the idea that global warming is man-made.

The political career of Sarah Palin has always been influential for women all across the world. Her leadership quality, courage, strong values has certainly made her one of the powerful women in politics.