Editing Hazel R. O'Leary (section)

=== Early career ===
O'Leary worked as a prosecutor in New Jersey on organized crime cases,<ref name="Henneberger, Melinda" /> later becoming an assistant attorney general for the state.<ref name="Smith, Jessie Carney" /> In 1969, after obtaining a divorce, O'Leary moved to Washington, D.C., where she joined the consulting/accounting firm [[Coopers & Lybrand]].<ref name="Harrington, Linda M, No Pie in Sky" /><ref name="Smith, Jessie Carney" /> During the [[Carter administration]], O'Leary was appointed assistant administrator of the [[Energy Information Administration|Federal Energy Administration]], [[general counsel]] of the Community Services Administration, and administrator of the Economic Regulatory Administration at the newly created [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]], where she met [[United States Deputy Secretary of Energy|Deputy Secretary of Energy]] [[John F. O'Leary]].<ref name="Henneberger, Melinda" /> They married on April{{nbsp}}24, 1980.<ref name="Harrington, Linda M, No Pie in Sky" /><ref name="Feder, Barnaby J., New Energy Chief" />

After Carter lost the [[1980 United States presidential election|1980 election]], the O'Learys established the consulting firm O'Leary & Associates in [[Morristown, New Jersey]], where she served as vice president and general counsel.<ref name="Stych, Ed">{{Cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-5604407/energy-secretary-candidate-has-experience-as-regulator|title=Energy Secretary Candidate Has Experience as Regulator, Executive|last=Stych|first=Ed|date=December 22, 1992|website=|publisher=The Journal Record|access-date=August 29, 2017|archive-date=September 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929183440/https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-5604407/energy-secretary-candidate-has-experience-as-regulator|url-status=dead}}</ref> After Jack died of cancer in 1987, she moved to [[Minnesota]].<ref name="Henneberger, Melinda" /> From 1989 to 1993, O'Leary worked as an executive vice president of the [[Northern States Power Company]], a Minnesota-based public utility.<ref name="Stych, Ed" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-13511407/the-new-powers-that-be-the-clinton-challenge|title=The New Powers That Be: The Clinton Challenge" Vol. 23, Issue 8|last=Scott|first=Matthew S.|date=March 1993|website=|publisher=Black Enterprise|access-date=2017-08-29|archive-date=2017-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929231546/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-13511407/the-new-powers-that-be-the-clinton-challenge|url-status=dead}}</ref>