Fay hartog levin biography
Fay Hartog-Levin (born ) is an American lawyer, consultant, and diplomat..
Yet another Chicagoan tapped by President Barack Obama, Fay Hartog Levin is a longtime Democratic activist and fundraiser and an early supporter of the president’s who also has family roots in the Netherlands.
Levin was sworn in August 13, 2009, and presented her credentials to Queen Beatrix six days later.
Hartog Levin’s parents, Ada and Jo, were Dutch Jews who lived in The Hague and owned a meat-processing factory in Oss when World War II broke out.
She was a graduate from Northwestern University where she majored in Russian Language and Literature.
They fled to Suriname, then a Dutch colony, where her father served in the Dutch army. In 1948, the family emigrated to the U.S., where their daughter was born shortly afterwards. The family eventually settled in the Chicago area.
A resident of Winnetka, Hartog Levin graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Russian language and literature.
She received her JD from Loyola University School of Law.
Her legal career began as an attorney for Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather and Geraldson, pr