Jill Wine-Banks
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Jill Wine-Banks

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Jill Wine-Banks' book, The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President, has been optioned by Katie Holmes to become a movie. She is currently a legal analyst on MSNBC, a co-host of two Politicon podcasts, #SistersInLaw with 3 other MSNBC contributors (Joyce Vance, Kimberly Atkins Stohr and Barbara McQuade) talking about pressing legal issues each week and iGenPolitics with Victor Shi, a college student, bringing an intergenerational approach to political issues with interviews of leading politicians, activists and journalists. Jill began her acclaimed career as the first woman to serve as an organized crime prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Less than five years later, she was selected as one of the three Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutors in for the obstruction of justice trial against President Nixon's top aides. Known as the "mini-skirted lawyer," cross examined President Nixon’s secretary about the 18 ½ minute gap in a key White House recording. Ms. Wine-Banks also served as first female General Counsel of the U.S. Army, Illinois’ first Solicitor General and first female Deputy Attorney General, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Bar Association, and held executive positions at both corporate and non-profit companies, including work for Motorola in Ukraine and Russia, where she met with Putin. For more information about Jill’s career, #JillsPins, television appearances, speeches and how to contact her, see https://www.jillwinebanks.com
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