Category: Presidential Advisor

Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms


Keisha Lance Bottoms served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 2018-2022. Bottoms was the first Atlanta mayor to serve in all three branches of government: as a judge, a city council member and the mayor. She announced her run for governor of Georgia on April 4, 2025. Bottoms was born on January 18, 1970, in Atlanta, Georgia. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in communications from Florida A&M University. In 1994, she received her Juris Doctor degree from Georgia State University College of Law. After law school, Bottoms became a […]
Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes


Karen Hughes served as the under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in the U.S. Department of State from 2005 to 2007. Hughes was born on December 27, 1956, in Paris, France, to American parents Patricia and Harold Parfitt, the last U.S. governor of the Panama Canal Zone. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in journalism from Southern Methodist University in 1977. She began her career as a television news reporter for KXAS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth. Prior […]
Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett


Valerie Jarrett is a businesswoman and former government official who was the longest-serving senior advisor to President Barack Obama. She has been the chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation since 2021. Jarrett was born November 14, 1956, in Shiraz, Iran to American parents, moving with her family to London at age five and then to Chicago in 1962. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Stanford University in 1978 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981. Jarrett began working in the […]