Rod Blagojevich wife job: What does Patti Blagojevich do for a living?

Since her husband’s incarceration, Patricia Blagojevich helped her father start a lobbying firm and has worked as a financial adviser

Patricia Blagojevich is the former First Lady of Illinois and the wife of Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of Illinois, who was impeached and removed from office.

In 2009, Patti Blagojevich appeared as a contestant on the NBC reality show, I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here. She placed fourth on the show.

Patricia Mell “Patti” Blagojevich Mell, was born on April 9, 1965, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Patricia is the daughter of former Chicago alderman Richard Mell. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Patricia Blagojevich’s husband, Rod Blagojevich served as an Illinois state representative from 1993 to 1997, and the U.S. representative from Illinois’s 5th district from 1997 to 2003.

In May 2020, Rod Blagojevich launched a politics-themed podcast titled “The Lightning Rod” on WLS-AM 890 which ran through September 2021.