Desiree Rogers Named White House Social Secretary (PHOTOS)
Desiree Rogers, 49, is President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for White House Social Secretary. A Chicago friend of the Obama family, she is currently chief of online community development for Allstate Financial, serving as president of social networking.
The Wellsley College graduate previously served as CEO of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas in Chicago and before that she directed the Illinois State Lottery.
Rogers’ former husband, John W. Rogers, has also been tapped by the President-elect and will serve as Co-chair of Obama’s Inauguration. He is a former team mate of Michelle Obama’s brother Craig Robinson on the Princeton University basketball team.
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Filed under: Across the Nation, Politics
I was attending a Chicago Bulls’ game and Desiree Glapion (soon to be Mrs.Rogers) was overheard in the womens bathroom that she had plotted and planned to marry someone named John Rogers so she could be set up for life financially. The person she was talking to was Juanita Vanoy, soon to be Mrs. Michael Jordan. The third member of the group was awoman whose name I can’t remember that was trying to get married to Gary Matthews, the Cubs baseball player. The three were admiring the beautiful silver compact Desiree was using as it was a present from John Rogers. The three of them went on and on about the devious ploys they concocted to keep the guys interested without sounding like golddiggers. Pretty sad, but I heard it with my own ears.