Iowa Indy alum Douglas Burns wrote a story for the cover of this week’s Cityview profiling Iowa politico Jackie Norris, who was recently named chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama:

When he retires late in the evening to the private quarters of the White House, President Barack Obama, now the human being who more than 6.7 billion others can dare to author destiny, will no doubt seek the comforting counsel of his wife Michelle on matters from family dogs and blue ties to wars and economic stress.

And for her part, the nation’s new First Lady — the president’s “rock” or campaign “closer” — is placing her historically undefined job, and the spectacular public expectations accompanying it, in the trusted hands of political operative and former Central Iowa school teacher Jackie Norris, Michelle Obama’s chief of staff.

For further reading: Iowa Independent’s Jason Hancock, who happens to be a Cityview alum, interviewed Norris just before her new job was announced.  Jackie’s husband, John Norris, is set to work under former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack at the Department of Agriculture.