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SENIOR ADVISOR VALERIE JARRETT Jarrett became the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat Company on January 31, 2007. She had served as Executive Vice President of Habitat for 12 years. Prior to that, Jarrett served for eight years in Chicago government as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley, and Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development. Before her city government service, Ms. Jarrett practiced law with two private law firms. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Jarrett served as a Director of corporate and not for profit boards, including Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Vice Chair of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees, and the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee. She was a Director of the Local Initiative Support Corporation, The Joyce Foundation, and a Trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry. From 1995 to 2003, Jarrett served as Chairman of the Chicago
Transit Board. Jarrett also served as Chairman of the Board of the Chicago
Stock Exchange from April 2004 through April 2007. She was a Director
of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from January 2006 through April
2007. Jarrett served as Finance Chair for President Obama's 2004 run for
the U.S. Senate. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff/valerie_jarrett/
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