Joe Biden's election victory makes his wife Jill the future first lady. Who is the woman who has two masters degrees and a doctorate?
Jill Biden (69) was the second lady of the United States of America for eight years between 2009 and 2017. With the election of her husband Joe (77, "Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose") as the future 46th US President, she will be promoted to First Lady on January 20, 2021. Who is the teacher who, like her husband, is married for the second time and who continued to teach at a community college during her time as a second lady?
Jill Tracy Jacobs was born in 1951 in the US state of New Jersey, according to "BBC", but, like her husband, spent her childhood in Pennsylvania. After the eldest of five daughters of a banker and a housewife finished school, she began studying fashion merchandising, but switched to English relatively early on and worked as a model on the side. In 1970, the student married former college football player Bill Stevenson, and the marriage lasted only four years.
Joe met Jill Biden on a blind date, and he asked for her hand five times
Jacobs met then Senator Joe Biden in 1975 on a blind date arranged by his brother Francis Biden. Three years earlier, the politician had lost his first wife Neilia Hunter (1942-1972) and their one-year-old daughter Naomi in a serious car accident. Biden found happiness for the second time with Jill. The couple married in June 1977 after Joe Biden proposed to his partner five times, as she revealed to Vogue. Daughter Ashley (now 39) was born four years later.
After the birth of their daughter, Jill Biden took a career break to look after her and her two step-sons Hunter (50) and Beau (1969-2015). The passionate teacher never gave up her academic career, however, in the following years she obtained two master's degrees. She also resumed her work at school, teaching history to mentally ill children, among other things. In 2007, at age 55, Biden received a PhD from the University of Delaware.
Professor, founder of the foundation, author of children's books – and Joe Biden's bodyguard?
After her husband became Vice President Barack Obama (59, "A Promised Land") in 2009, the life of Jill Biden also changed. Nevertheless, in addition to her role as a second lady, she continued to teach as a professor at a community college. She also founded a foundation for breast cancer awareness, Biden Breast Health – just one facet of her diverse social commitment, especially in the field of education. In 2020 Biden also went among children's book authors, the work "Joey: The Story of Joe Biden" is about the youth of her husband Joe.
That Dr. Jill Biden doesn’t need or want to hide behind her prominent husband, not only makes her resume clear, but also herself: In the self-description on her Instagram profile, “Joe Biden’s wife” is only to be read at the very end Terms "lifelong educator", "military mother", "grandmother" and "sister". During the election campaign, Jill Biden even mutated to the Secret Service himself and stood protectively in front of her husband when someone tried to get too close to him, like a video on Twitter proves.
Jill Biden: "He Will Be a President for All of Our Families"
The 69-year-old supports her husband one hundred percent – sometimes in an unusual way. During the election campaign, for example, she posted a delicious recipe for a Sunday dinner and at the same time called for voter registration. After her husband's election victory, she also spoke up on the social media platform. "He will be a President to all of our families," she wrote next to a photo of her and her husband holding up a sign that reads "Dr. and Vice President Biden live here" – the word "Vice" covers the soon-to-be first lady with one hand.
Jill Biden doesn't want to step back behind her husband, but she doesn't steal the show from him either. Your fashion style reflects this. The British "Evening Standard" describes him as "inconspicuous, elegant and relatable". Biden often wears colorful, well-cut shift dresses, which she combines with pretty accessories. The 69-year-old Italian-American prefers to leave designer clothes and shoes like the ones Melania Trump (50) wears in the closet. Perhaps it is a purely practical decision, because the "lifelong teacher" Jill Biden also wants to continue teaching as First Lady.