Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Andrea Zopp Andrea Zopp
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Other authors / contributors: | Zopp, Andrea, 1957- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2012 January 18. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Nonprofit executive and lawyer Andrea Zopp was born on January 25, 1957 in Rochester, New York. She received her B.S. degree from Harvard University in 1978 and her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1981. Zopp worked as a trial lawyer and litigator for Sonnenschien Nath & Rosenthal from 1982 to 1992. She was then appointed as First Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County where she prosecuted several high profile cases. Zopp served as vice president and deputy general counsel of Sara Lee Corporation from 2000 to 2003 and senior vice president and general counsel of Sears Roebuck and Company from 2003 to 2004. Zopp became head of the human resources department at Exelon Corporation in 2006. In 2010, she was appointed president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League and in 2011, was appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to the Chicago Board of Education's Board of Trustees.
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