Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer and the wife of Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the 2008 Democratic nominee for President. She was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago and graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. After completing her formal education, she returned to Chicago and went to work for the law firm Sidley Austin, on the staff of the Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Hospitals.

Michelle Obama is the sister of Craig Robinson, men’s basketball coach at Oregon State University.

She met Barack when he went to work for Sidley Austin. The Obamas live on Chicago’s South Side, choosing to remain there rather than moving to Washington, D.C.