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Valerie Jarrett, right, introduces Graham Moore, son of Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff Susan Sher. | Lynn Sweet WASHINGTON--Susan Sher is First Lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff, but the title that seems most apt for her lately is proud mom: Sher's son, first-time novelist Graham Moore, author of "The Sherlockian" was feted twice here: at the residence of the vice president last Wednesday and at book party Monday that drew a "who's who's" crowd. Second Lady Jill Biden hosted a rare personal party in the home--well decorated for the holidays, down to stockings on the fireplace--a tribute to her...

White House aide Susan Sher earned more than half a million dollars from the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2009, when she left to join the Obama administration only a few weeks into the year, according to a newly released financial disclosure. Sher was general counsel and vice president for community and external affairs at the medical center before taking a job as Michelle Obama's chief of staff on Jan. 19, 2009. In that calendar year, the medical center gave Sher $511,000 — $49,000 in unused holiday and vacation pay, $149,000 in salary and bonus pay and $313,000 in...

Susan Sher, chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama and a key White House liaison to the Jewish community, plans to return to Chicago at the beginning of next year, the White House said Tuesday. “Susan has been both a colleague and a dear friend for decades, and I have been grateful every day for her leadership and wise counsel in Washington,” First Lady Michelle Obama said in a statement. “I also very much appreciate her generosity in staying longer than she initially planned – spending so many months away from her family in Chicago – to help me...

Washington took note when first lady Michelle Obama suddenly sacked her chief of staff in favor of her old boss from Chicago at the beginning of June. It was widely seen as a sign that the first lady wanted to start pumping up policy as well as her biceps. The new chief of staff, Susan Sher, had helped Obama move from an unsatisfying job as a corporate lawyer grinding out billable hours to a lush, $317,000-a-year community relations job at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Sher, Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett and the first lady are close friends....