WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama isreplacingher captain of crozier with a longtime girl and confidant from Chicago. Jackie Norris will become a older adviser to the Corporation for National and Community Service. Replacing Norris as supervisor of pole will be Mrs. Obama's longtime lover Susan Sher. Sher joined the charge as an fellow counsel to the president. Sher and Mrs. Obama worked together at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Norris worked on the president's rivalry in Iowa. Norris will proceed to control with the basic lady's organization and the application as it implements a new law to dilate national community service programs. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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