Michelle Obama (born January 17, 1964) served as the country’s first lady from 2009 to 2017 while also being the wife of President Barack Obama and an American novelist. She was the first African American woman to hold this post.
Obama, who grew up in Chicago’s South Side, is a Princeton and Harvard University graduate. At Sidley Austin, where she first met Barack Obama, she started her legal career. Later, she worked for charity institutions, held the position of vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and was an associate dean of student services at the university of Chicago.
How did Michelle Obama and Barack Obama Meet?
On October 3, Barack and Michelle Obama marked their 30th wedding anniversary. They first met when Michelle was assigned to be Barack’s mentor at a Chicago law firm. They got married in 1992, had two kids, and served in the White House for eight years. Michelle Robinson, then 25, and Barack Obama, then 28, first connected in the Sidley Austin LLP office in Chicago, where Robinson was designated as his mentor.