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Michelle Robinson was born into a working-class African American family from the South Side of Chicago. She graduated from Whitney Young High School in 1981. She majored in sociology at Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985, and obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.

Following law school, she was an associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin. Subsequently, she held public sector positions in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor and Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development. In 1993 she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies.

Mrs Obama began work for the University of Chicago Hospitals in 2002, after previously serving as the founding director of the University`s Community Service Center (beginning in 1996). She was promoted to her current position in May 2005. In May 2006, Essence magazine listed her among "25 of the World`s Most Inspiring Women."

She currently serves on the board of TreeHouse Foods, Inc.

She married Barack Obama in 1992, and they have two daughters, Malia (born 1999) and Sasha (born 2001).

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