Jeanette A. Michael

Biography: Jeanette Michael, Executive Director D.C. Lottery

Jeanette A. Michael has extensive experience in government service in the District of Columbia. After a myriad of appointments to D.C. boards and commissions, Ms. Michael served as the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board's (D.C. Lottery) first General Counsel. After leaving the DC Lottery in 1987, she served as a Deputy Director in the City's Department of Human Services, as a supervisory attorney in the City's Office of the Corporation Counsel and her last position before taking a 2 1/2-year sabbatical was as Chief of Staff to the District's former mayor, Marion Barry, Jr.

Returning to the Lottery as the deputy Director for Operations, she assumed the duties and responsibilities of the Executive Director after the departure of Anthony Cooper, former director of the Lottery. During her short tenure she drafted a marketing plan, negotiated new games, expedited the procurement process, approved the FY 2003 budget, refocused the trade development department, pushed forward the agency's website, and changed the role of the public relations department. She keeps the entire staff completely focused on the agency's main mission — to generate revenue to supplement the District's general fund. She has been invited by professional lottery organizations to address her colleagues in the industry on novel approaches to increasing sales.

Ms. Michael has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Manhattanville College and a JD degree from George Washington University. She is a certified public manager and a member in good standing of the District of Columbia Bar.