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Valerie June Jarrett ( née Bowman; born November 14, 1956) [ 1 ] is an American businesswoman and former government official serving as the chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation since 2021. [ 2 ] She was the longest-serving senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama.
While Jarrett was the new kid in town, everyone was familiar with her mother, Valerie Jarrett, who served as senior advisor to President Barack Obama during his eight years in office.
Vernon Jarrett was married to Fernetta Jarrett. They had two sons, William R. Jarrett and Thomas S. Jarrett. Both sons attended private schools due to their father's fears about gang violence. Dr. William Jarrett was an obstetrician and married Valerie Bowman in 1983. William and Valerie had one daughter, Laura, and divorced in 1988.
The Council was chaired by Valerie Jarrett and included the heads of every federal agency and major White House office. The Council was not convened during the Trump administration and was disbanded in 2017. A successor body, the White House Gender Policy Council, was formed under the Biden administration on January 20, 2021.
Laura's mother, Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, was elated to hear about her daughter's new role with TODAY. “She was very excited,” Laura said of her mom's ...
More saliently, we got dinner with Valerie Jarrett, the longest-serving senior adviser to President Barack Obama, and the only other Black woman I met on that trip. I was struck by the measured ...
Jarrett says that her mother, Valerie Jarrett — formerly the senior advisor to President Barack Obama and now CEO of the Obama Foundation — couldn't have been happier to hear about her ...
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault was formed on January 22, 2014, after President Barack Obama directed the Office of the Vice President of the United States and the White House Council on Women and Girls to "strengthen and address compliance issues and provide institutions with additional tools to respond to and address rape and sexual assault".