New Trier Grad Leads Barack Obama’s Transition Team

KENILWORTH, IL - Anita Decker Breckenridge, a Kenilworth native and New Trier High School alum, is leading President Barack Obama’s transition team and will be his chief of staff once the president becomes a private citizen of Washington, D.C. after Donald Trump takes over the presidency on Jan. 20.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday that Breckenridge - a current White House deputy chief of staff who has worked with Obama since he was a state senator in Illinois in 2004 - will be the final staffer out of the White House when the transition is made on Inauguration Day.

Breckenridge, a 38-year-old who graduated from New Trier in 1996, is in charge of archiving the Obama White House and working with Trump’s team.

Breckenridge helped with Obama’s successful 2004 campaign for United States Senator in Illinois and has worked with him ever since. In 2014, she became a deputy chief of staff.

She will continue her work for Obama as the first family moves to a rented house in the nation’s capital while daughter Sasha finishes high school.

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