Father a Ninth Circuit judge? She earned several degrees between the secretary job and the CEO job. she did not work her way up from secretary at HP to CEO of HP, which is how she makes it sound.
No, she was not at HP but at AT&T, first as a secretary and then in sales when it was transitioning to Lucent. Of course she had degrees - is there something wrong with that? I’m about the same age, and like it or not, even women with multiple degrees often had to start out as administrative assistants. This is not the case now, fortunately.