Chesley Sullenberger was not ranked after Michelle Obama.
Sullenberger is the co-author, with Jeffrey Zaslow, of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, a memoir of his life and of the events surrounding Flight 1549, published in 2009 by HarperCollins
 He was ranked second in Time's Top 100 Most Influential Heroes and Icons of 2009, after Michelle Obama

