---
type: Person
title: Melinda French Gates
description: "Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"
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  - person
  - gates_foundation
organization: gates_foundation
document_count: 7
first_seen: "2013-10-11T13:25:39"
last_seen: "2021-10-08T04:25:51"
aliases:
  - Melinda French
  - Melinda French Gates
  - Melinda Gates
sources:
  - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 }
generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" }
status: stable
---

Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

# Activity

- **Documents:** 7 (sent/authored 3, received 4)
- **Active:** 2013-10-11 to 2021-10-08
- **Organization:** [gates_foundation](/organizations/gates-foundation.md)
- **Appears as:** `Melinda French`, `Melinda French Gates`, `Melinda Gates`

# Correspondents

| Person | Messages | First | Last |
|---|---:|---|---|
| [Bill Gates](/people/bill-gates.md) | 2 | 2021-01-28 | 2021-01-28 |
| [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) | 2 | 2021-10-07 | 2021-10-08 |
| [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) | 1 | 2021-01-29 | 2021-01-29 |

# Topics

* [Gates Foundation involvement](/topics/gates-foundation.md) - 2 documents
* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 2 documents

# Statement timeline

What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations.

* **2021-10-07** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "I've admired and appreciated your leadership both over the course of our collaboration and during the extraordinarily challenging moments the pandemic has brought." [^gates]
* **2021-10-07** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "I've admired and appreciated your leadership both over the course of our collaboration and during the extraordinarily challenging moments the pandemic has brought." [^gates]

# Sources

[^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md)