Jill Biden Biography
Jill Biden is an American educator who is best known for serving as Second Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 47th Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden.
Jill Biden Education
Jill Biden attended Upper Moreland High School, where she was somewhat rebellious and enjoyed her social life, but always liked English class. She graduated in 1969. Biden then enrolled in a junior college in Pennsylvania to study fashion merchandising, but soon found it unsatisfying.
She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware, master’s degrees from Villanova University and West Chester University, and a doctoral degree from the University of Delaware. Biden taught English and reading in high schools for 13 years, including 3 years at Claymont High School. She also taught an adolescent program at the Rockford Center psychiatric hospital for five years in the 1980s.
From 1993 to 2008, Biden was an English and writing instructor at Delaware Technical & Community College. Since 2009, Biden has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College and is thought to be the first Second Lady to hold a paying job while her husband was Vice President.
Jill Biden Age | How Old Is Jill Biden?
Biden is 72 years old. She was born Jill Tracy Jacobs on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 3rd of June every year.
Jill Biden Height
Biden stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall.
Jill Biden Family
Biden was born in Hammonton, New Jersey, and grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Donald C. Jacobs and Bonny Jean Jacobs. Her father was a bank teller who became head of savings and loans in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. His family name had originally been Giacoppa before her Italian grandfather anglicized it. Her mother was a homemaker. Jill has four younger sisters
Jill Biden Husband/ Jill And Joe Biden
Biden is married to Joe Biden, who served as the 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. The two met on a blind date set up by Joe’s brother, though Biden had seen her photograph in a local advertisement. They got married to a Catholic priest on June 17, 1977, at the Chapel of the United Nations in New York City. This was four and a half years after his first wife, Neilla Hunter, and infant daughter died in a motor vehicle accident.
Joe Biden had proposed several times before she accepted, hesitant to take on the commitment of raising his two young sons who had survived the accident. They had their daughter, Ashley, born in 1981, and Jill stopped working for two years while raising the three children. As of March 2019, her husband, Biden, was reported to be actively considering a 2020 presidential run, and a CNN poll placed him as the most popular potential Democratic presidential candidate in a pool of likely contenders.
Jill Biden First Husband / Bill Stevenson Jill Biden
Biden was previously married to Bill Stevenson, a former college football player, in February 1970. Within a couple of years, Stevenson opened the Stone Balloon in Newark, Delaware, near the University of Delaware which became one of the most successful college bars in the nation. After six years of marriage, the couple divorced.
Jill Biden Children
Biden is a mother of one daughter, Ashley, and stepmother to Biden’s two sons from his first marriage, Beau and Hunter, whose mother and baby sister died in a car accident in 1972.
Jill Biden Daughter
Biden’s daughter, Ashley Blazer, born in 1981 is a social worker and staffer at the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families.
Jill Biden Net Worth
Biden has an estimated net worth of over $15 million.
Jill Biden Religion
Biden is Roman Catholic and regularly attends Mass at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware.
Jill Biden Book
- 2012: Don’t Forget, God, Bless Our Troops: With Audio Recording
- 2019: Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself