SISKEL’S RESUME

• A former deputy White House counsel under President Obama • Also served as a deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice • Joined the law firm of Wilmer-Hale in 2014 • Also had stints as a federal prosecutor in Chicago and as a law clerk for U. S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. • He is the nephew of Gene Siskel, the late movie critic who was the television partner of famed Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert.

Edward Siskel will become Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s next corporation counsel. COURTESY OF WILMERHALE