Jill Wine-Banks is a legal analyst on MSNBC, co-hosts #SistersInLaw and iGenPolitics podcasts, and is the author of The Watergate Girl, now optioned by Katie Holmes to become a movie.
Ms. Wine-Banks is a former DOJ federal prosecutor and one of the three Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutors for the obstruction of justice trial against President Nixon's top aides, where her cross examination of Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon’s secretary, about the 18 ½ minute gap in a key White House recording, became a symbol of the strong case against Nixon.
In between stints in private practice, Ms. Wine-Banks served as General Counsel of the U.S. Army under President Carter and as Illinois’ first Solicitor General and first female Deputy Attorney General, and as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Bar Association, again the only woman to have held that position. She then held executive positions at both corporate and non-profit companies, including work in Russia and Ukraine for Motorola, where she met with Putin, as well as in China and Hong Kong, and in Japan and Europe for Maytag, as well as service as the Chief Officer of career and technical education for the Chicago Public Schools, where she founded DeVry Advantage Academy.
She has written numerous op-eds, serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Better Government Association, and has won numerous award from DOJ, the Army, the ABA, the Women’s Bar Association, and Who’s Who among others.