Pamela B. Strobel (’77) will deliver the University of Illinois College of Law Convocation address.
Strobel is the retired executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Exelon and retired president of Exelon’s Business Services Company. She also served as chairman and CEO, Exelon Energy Delivery, the holding company for the corporation’s energy delivery businesses, PECO Energy in Philadelphia and ComEd in Chicago. Prior to the merger of PECO and Unicom, Strobel was executive vice president of Unicom Corporation and its chief subsidiary, ComEd. She joined ComEd as General Counsel in 1993, prior to which she was a partner in the law firms of Sidley & Austin and Isham, Lincoln & Beale.
Currently, Strobel serves as a director of Domtar Corporation, Illinois Tool Works Inc., and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. She serves on the boards of UI Labs and the Chicago High School for the Arts. She is a past trustee of the University of Illinois, past chair and life trustee of the Ravinia Festival, and past chair and life trustee of the Civic Consulting Alliance. She is also a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicago Network, and the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Her honors include: The 2009 Arts Advocate Award from the Illinois Arts Alliance; The 2003 Association of Professional Fundraisers award for Executive Leadership; The 2003 Myra Bradwell Award for Excellence in the Profession from the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois; The 2002 Luminary Award from the Girl Scouts of Chicago; The Diversity 2000 Award from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association; The 1997 Founder’s Award from the Chicago Bar Association’s Alliance for Women; and the 1997 Women of Achievement Award from the Anti-Defamation League.
In 1996, she was named a distinguished alumna of the University of Illinois College of Law, and in 2006 she was honored by the U. of I. Alumni Association as one of its Chicago Alumni of the Year. In 2002, she was named to Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women, received the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago’s Outstanding Achievement Award in Business, and was inducted into Today’s Chicago Woman Hall of Fame. In 2004, she was named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ list of 100 Most Influential Women and the Chicago Sun-Times’ list of Top 10 Businesswomen in Chicago.
Strobel received both her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Illinois, where she was a Bronze Tablet recipient and a member of the law review.