Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama Biography -

Name : Michelle Obama Birth name : Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Date of Birth : January 17, 1964 Place of Birth : Chicago, Illinois Nationality : American Proffession : Lawyer Religion : Protestant (UCC) Spouse : Barack Obama Children : Malia Ann and Sasha (Daughters) Height : 5'10"

Michelle Obama Detailed Biography -

Michelle Obama, whose birth name is Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, was born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father, Frasier Robinson, is a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain. Her mother, Marian Robinson, is a secretary at Spiegel's catalog

. She grew up in the South Shore community area of Chicago. Michelle graduated from Whitney Young High School in 1981 and went on to major in sociology and minor in African American studies at Princeton University, where she graduated 'cum laude' with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985. She mostly traces her to pre-Revolutionary War African Americans in the American South; much of her family still resides in the state of South Carolina.

At Princeton, Michelle challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational. As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community". She obtained her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. While at Harvard, she participated in political demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who are members of minorities.

After graduating from Harvard, Michelle accepted a position at a downtown Chicago law firm. In 1989 she was asked to mentor a summer associate from Harvard name Barack Obama. Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her. The couple married in October 1992. They have only two daughters.

Michelle's professional relationships were helpful when her husband in 2004, then a state senator, ran for the United States Senate, where he faced a primary dominated by some of the Democratic Party's most powerful political families. In this 2004 race, Obama had the support of influential black business leaders, some of whom had closer ties to his wife than they did to him. According to Newsweek, a former boss of Michelle Obama's, a powerful black woman Valerie Jarrett, chair of the Chicago Stock Exchange, served as finance chair of Barack Obama's U.S. Senate campaign.

After Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, Barack and Michelle choose to keep their children in Chicago, where Michelle continued her career as well.