Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of Democrat Chris Dodd, has mixed a career with motherhood, but credits a little luck for her success.
“I like the title of homemaker. The best title I’ve ever taken on is Mommy,” she said. “But I’ve been lucky. I was lucky I had worked for so many years before having little ones. I’ve benefited from having had a full career. That gave me options. I work out of my home, so my little ones have no notion of Mommy working. I do conference calls, while they’re playing right in front of me.”
Dodd, a former vice president of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. , left a government career six years ago but still runs her own international consulting company and sits on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, Blockbuster, Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cardiome Pharma Corp. and Brookdale Senior Living Inc. She is past staff member to numerous Congressional committees, including Appropriations, Senate Banking and Defense. She married Dodd in 1999 and is now the mother of two daughters, Christina, 2, and Grace, 5.
