Her marriage to Congressman Chaka Fattah, now serving in his sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, also could hardly escape public notice, and two years ago, daughter Chandler was born to one of Philadelphia’s best-known power couples.

"Every day, between news broadcasts, I’m at home with my girls, doing what other moms are doing. It may not be glamorous, but it’s absolutely where I want to be,” says Renee Chenault-Fattah.

Today, the Penn Law alumna has no regrets about her career path. “I practiced law for only three years, and I’ve been a working journalist for almost 20. Yet if you ask me how I define myself, it would be as a lawyer,” says Chenault-Fattah. “I value my experience and my degree from Penn because it taught me a way of thinking and analyzing that has definitely made me a better journalist, a better lawyer and a more fulfilled person.”

Sally Friedman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has been a freelance writer for three decades. She has contributed to the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Newark Star Ledger and other major newspapers and magazines. Along with feature writing, she is also an essayist whose weekly columns run in the Journal Register newspaper chain.