She is a Republican who served as a top advisor to U.S. Vice-President
Dick Cheney from 2001-2003. Resigned to open
a Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm with her husband,
former
Bill Clinton advisor
James Carville. Carville and she have two
daughters, Matalin Mary
Matty Carville
and Emerson Normand
Emma Carville. In
2008, they moved their family to New Orleans.