OK I want to be accurate, this is from Wikipedia she has held other jobs they don’t impress me but here it is:
Following law school, she was an associate at the Chicago office of the law firm Sidley Austin where she first met her husband. At the firm, she worked on marketing and intellectual property.[3] 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.[8]
In 1996, Obama served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed the University’s Community Service Center.[22] In 2002, she began working for the University of Chicago Hospitals, first as executive director for community affairs and, beginning May, 2005, as Vice President for Community and External Affairs.[23] She still holds the position, though she is working part time in order to devote more time to being a mother.[24]
Also noted she participated in protests while at Harvard to hire more minority professors.
Bernadine Dohrn, terrorist and wife of Bill Ayers, also worked at Sidley, around the same time Michele Obama was there:
Bernardine Dohrn was at Sidley Austin a law firm in Chicago from
From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was employed by the law firm Sidley Austin, although her criminal record has prevented her from being admitted to either the New York or Illinois bar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn
Michelle Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988. But she likely also was a summer associate in 1987 and likely 1986. Barack Obama was assigned to her in 1989 when he was a summer associate from Harvard Law School.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama