Pamela B. Strobel

Pamela B. 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 is a Trustee of the University of Illinois and serves on the boards of the Chicago High School for the Arts and The Joffrey Ballet. She chairs the boards of the Ravinia Festival and the Civic Consulting Alliance, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Chicago Network.

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 the1997 Women of Achievement Award from the Anti-Defamation League.

In 1996, she was named a distinguished alumnus of the University of Illinois College of Law and in 2006 she was honored by the U of I Alumnae Association as one of its Chicago Alums 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 Business women 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.

She is married to Russ Strobel and they have two grown children, Ben and Libby.