Born:
                                                                              January 17, 1964
                          
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
                                                  
                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                          Trivia:
                          Attended a gifted class at Bryn Mawr Elementary School.Graduated as the salutatorian of her high school class.Graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a minor in African-American studies.In 1989, met Barack Obama at the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin where she worked as an associate attorney.Saw the movie Do the Right Thing (1989) on her first date with Barack Obama during the summer of 1989.Served as Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, and Vice President of Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center.The first person besides Oprah Winfrey to appear on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine.The first First Lady of the United States of African-American descent.Her memoir, Becoming, was released on November 13, 2018.