Melinda Gates knows what it’s like to enter a room with her husband, Bill, and have the eyes and the conversation shift to him. That used to happen routinely early on in the 53-year-old Dallas ...

Melinda Gates, a Dallas native and the 1982 valedictorian at Ursuline Academy, is promoting her new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. (Elaine Thompson / The ...