Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Chicago city administrator, community outreach worker and wife of U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was born January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised on Chicago’s South Side, her father, Frasier Robinson, was a city pump operator and a Democratic precinct captain. Her mother, Marian, was a Spiegel's secretary. Michelle Obama graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago’s West Loop. After high school, she attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985 with a B.A. in Sociology. She went on to earn a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988.
Following law school, Michelle Obama worked as an associate in the Chicago branch of the law firm Sidley Austin in the area of marketing and intellectual property. There in 1989, she met her future husband, a summer intern, whom she was assigned as an adviser. They married on October 18, 1992. Michelle Obama soon launched a career in public service, serving as an assistant to the mayor and then as the assistant commissioner of planning and development for the City of Chicago.
In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit leadership training program that helped young adults develop skills for future careers in the public sector. Michelle joined the University of Chicago in 1996 as associate dean of student services, developing the University’s first community service program. She then worked for the University of Chicago Hospitals beginning in 2002, as executive director of community and external affairs.
In May 2005, she was appointed vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center. She also managed the business diversity program. Michelle Obama first caught the eye of a national audience at her husband's side when he delivered a high-profile speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois that November. Michelle sits on six boards, including the prestigious Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
In 2007, she scaled back her own professional work to attend to family and campaign obligations during Barack's run for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Obamas have two daughters, Malia (born 1999) and Natasha (2001), who is called Sasha.
Lawyer, Chicago city administrator, community outreach worker and wife of U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was born January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised on Chicago’s South Side, her father, Frasier Robinson, was a city pump operator and a Democratic precinct captain. Her mother, Marian, was a Spiegel's secretary. Michelle Obama graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago’s West Loop. After high school, she attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985 with a B.A. in Sociology. She went on to earn a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988.
Following law school, Michelle Obama worked as an associate in the Chicago branch of the law firm Sidley Austin in the area of marketing and intellectual property. There in 1989, she met her future husband, a summer intern, whom she was assigned as an adviser. They married on October 18, 1992. Michelle Obama soon launched a career in public service, serving as an assistant to the mayor and then as the assistant commissioner of planning and development for the City of Chicago.
In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit leadership training program that helped young adults develop skills for future careers in the public sector. Michelle joined the University of Chicago in 1996 as associate dean of student services, developing the University’s first community service program. She then worked for the University of Chicago Hospitals beginning in 2002, as executive director of community and external affairs.
In May 2005, she was appointed vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center. She also managed the business diversity program. Michelle Obama first caught the eye of a national audience at her husband's side when he delivered a high-profile speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois that November. Michelle sits on six boards, including the prestigious Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
In 2007, she scaled back her own professional work to attend to family and campaign obligations during Barack's run for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Obamas have two daughters, Malia (born 1999) and Natasha (2001), who is called Sasha.
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