John Podesta
| John Podesta | |
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| Counselor to the President | |
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In office January 1, 2014 – February 13, 2015 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Pete Rouse |
| Succeeded by |
Steve Bannon (2017) Kellyanne Conway (2017) Dina Powell (2017) |
| 20th White House Chief of Staff | |
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In office October 20, 1998 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Erskine Bowles |
| Succeeded by | Andy Card |
| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations | |
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In office January 20, 1997 – October 20, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Evelyn Lieberman |
| Succeeded by | Steve Ricchetti |
| White House Staff Secretary | |
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In office January 20, 1993 – June 30, 1995 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Phillip Brady |
| Succeeded by | Todd Stern |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
John David Podesta January 8, 1949 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Knox College (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
John David Podesta (born January 8, 1949) is the former chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and Counselor to President Barack Obama.
He is the former president, and now Chair and Counselor, of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., as well as a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Additionally, he was a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
Podesta spent most of his early years in Chicago, where he was born, growing up in the neighborhood of Jefferson Park on the city's Northwest Side. His mother, Mary (née Kokoris), was Greek-American, and his father, John David Podesta, Sr., was Italian-American.Tony Podesta, a lobbyist, is his brother. Podesta's father did not graduate from high school, but encouraged Podesta to attend college.
In 1967, Podesta graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago. In 1971, he graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he had served as a volunteer for the presidential candidacy of Eugene McCarthy. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.
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