Long-time Obama aide to leave White House
Associated Press
By NEDRA PICKLER 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White
House official who has been with President Barack
Obama since he first became a senator nine years ago is resigning.
Alyssa Mastromonaco is
Obama's deputy chief of staff for operations and often described as the most
influential person inside the White House who isn't well known outside of it.
She is responsible for planning
presidential events, hiring staff and overseeing the White House complex.
A White House official said
Mastromonaco is leaving in May to look for a job in the private sector.
The official said Obama insisted
as a condition of her departure that she continue to act as an outside adviser.
The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Mastromonaco joined Obama's Senate
office in February 2005 as scheduling director, and oversaw scheduling and
advance for his 2008 presidential campaign and during Obama's first term at the
White House. She was promoted to deputy chief of staff in 2011.
Mastromonaco is one of several of
Obama's most trusted long-time advisers to leave as he enters his sixth year in
office. It's a familiar pattern for second-term presidents, as aides grow tired
of the pressure cooker and look for other opportunities outside the White House
before the administration winds down.
Alyssa Mastromonaco
Alyssa M.
Mastromonaco is the deputy chief of staff for operations for the Barack Obama administration, and was Frederick C. Boucher’s press secretary.
Note: Frederick C.
Boucher’s press secretary was Alyssa
M. Mastromonaco, and is a partner at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
James
D. Zirin is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and was a director at Human
Rights First.
Mark
A. Angelson was a partner at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a director at Human
Rights First.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Human Rights First.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and William D. Zabel was his divorce lawyer.
William
D. Zabel was a trustee at the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, George
Soros’s divorce lawyer, and is the chair for Human Rights First.
Harold
H. Koh was a director at Human
Rights First, and the State Department legal adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Mona K. Sutphen
is a director at Human Rights First,
and was an assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Richard R. Verma
is a director at Human Rights First,
and was an assistant secretary of state for the Barack Obama administration.
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