** FILE ** Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett
President Obama speaks during his meeting with the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board at the White House with Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett seated behind him. The corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich - for purportedly trying to sell Mr. Obama's Senate seat - is a distant but unwelcome headache for the White House.
White Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, left, talks with singer William Adams, also know professionally as Will.i.am, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual meeting in New York. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama, joined by adviser Valerie Jarrett and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, right, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Obama is making official what has been clear for days: Rahm Emanuel, the relentless enforcer of his agenda as White House chief of staff, is resigning. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's name is coming up in testimony during the corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich under way in Chicago. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett
