Nearly a year after Tina Tchen resigned amid controversy from heading a national charity aimed at fighting sexual harassment, the Obama Foundation tapped the Chicago attorney to serve in a new role.
Preckwinkle knew about an alleged assault for six months before firing that staffer one day before launching her mayoral bid. Tchen said the endorsement was made in her personal capacity, not as the head of Time’s Up.Tchen worked in the White House for all eight years of Obama’s administration, first as director of the Office of Public Engagement and then as chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama.
Asked why Tchen was tasked with this program given the controversies, Obama Foundation spokesperson Courtney Williams said, “Tina has spent a career fighting for positive change for women. Her life’s work has been geared toward making workplaces fair and equitable and safer for women.”Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
After leaving the White House but before working for Time’s Up, Tchen headed the Chicago office of the Buckley law firm, “where she founded a practice advising companies on corporate culture,” according to the foundation release. According to an American Bar Association biography, Tchen helped author a 1983 bill in the Illinois General Assembly “that helped modernize Illinois rape laws to include sexual assault and other abuses” and worked on the National Organization for Women’s campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois.
Her legal career began at Kirkland & Ellis. She went on to clerk for District Court Judge John F. Grady and work for two decades at the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom before joining the White House.
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