House Member Recalls BOth Obamas From CollegeBy Lauren Fox September 3, 2012 CHARLOTTE,N.C. --Alabama Democrat Rep. Terri Sewell **SNIP** Sewell and Obama attended Harvard Law School together. **SNIP** Sewell jokes she might be one of the only people in the country who knew the first lady and the president before they met in the summer of 1989 at Chicago's Sidley and Austin law firm where the first lady was assigned to mentor a star Harvard Law graduate named Barack Obama.