Politico profiles Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s 50-year-old former chief of staff at the State Department and a family attorney dating back to the early’90s.

A Unique Relationship

As journalists and researchers scour Hillary’s emails looking for a bombshell and discovering none so far, they have marveled over the unique relationship between Hillary Clinton and Mills, who served as Senior Adviser and Counsel for Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign and then as Counselor and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Cheryl Mills serves as a senior adviser to the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Cheryl Mills is scheduled to testify before the House Benghazi Committee on Thursday, September 3. Politico reported yesterday that her request to testify in public for fear of selective leaks against Hillary Clinton has been denied.

In Clinton’s world, aides are usually loyal to Hillary or Bill, “but Cheryl crosses over both, and that’s always been very helpful to Hillary,’’ said a former aide who knows both women. “She’s no-nonsense, no messing around, she tells it like it is with both of them, with Hillary and the president.”

The frank relationship comes from the fact that Mills has been their lawyer for a long time. “There are no secrets,” the former aide said. “Cheryl knows everything, and that’s a great equalizer for them.”

Cheryl Mills At Clinton Foundation

Cheryl Mills served on the Board of Directors of the Clinton Foundation from 2004-2009 and again since 2013. The Clinton Foundation shares her power house bio:

Cheryl Mills is founder and chief executive officer of the BlackIvy Group, a company that grows and builds businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to founding BlackIvy, Cheryl served as counselor and chief of staff at the U.S. Department of State where she managed the foreign policy and operational priorities for the $55 billion agency. Prior to joining the State Department, she served as senior vice president for administration and operations as well as general counsel at New York University. During her tenure, Cheryl identified and convened strategic partners and negotiated the structure, framework, terms and conditions for the establishment of the University’s campus in the United Arab Emirates. Cheryl came to New York to join Oxygen Media, where she served as senior vice president for corporate policy and public programming. She previously worked in Washington, D.C., where she served as deputy counsel to the President at the White House. Cheryl’s legal experience also includes serving as associate counsel to the President, as deputy general counsel of the Clinton/Gore Transition Planning Foundation, and as an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hogan and Hartson. Cheryl currently serves on the boards of BlackRock, Inc. (corporate), the Clinton Foundation, and the See Forever Foundation (not-for-profit). She received her Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia.

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