Pam Strobel

Current public company boards: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Prior public company boards: Domtar Corporation

Executive Experience: 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 chair and CEO of 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, Pam 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, Pam serves as a director of Illinois Tool Works Inc. and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. She serves on the board of directors for the Music Academy of the West. She is a past trustee of the University of Illinois, life director, and past chair of the Joffrey Ballet, life trustee and past chair of the Ravinia Festival, and life trustee and past chair of the Civic Consulting Alliance. She was a founding board member and past director of ChiArts, the first public high school for the arts in Chicago.  She is also a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Additional information: In 1996, she was named a distinguished alumnus of the University of Illinois College of Law and in 26 she was honored by the U. of I. Alumni Association as one of its Chicago Alumni of the Year. In 22, she was named to Fortune’s 5 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 24, she was named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ list of the 1 Most Influential Women and the Chicago Sun-Times’ list of Top 1 Businesswomen in Chicago.

Pam 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.

Her honors include the 29 Arts Advocate Award from the Illinois Arts Alliance; the 23 Association of Professional Fundraisers award for Executive Leadership; and the 23 Myra Bradwell Award for Excellence in the Profession from the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. In 22, Pam was named to Fortune’s 5 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 24, she was named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ list of 1 Most Influential Women and the Chicago Sun-Times’ list of Top 1 Businesswomen in Chicago.