First Lady – Dr. Jill Biden

First Lady – Dr. Jill Biden

Who is Dr. Jill Biden – FIRST LADY 2021?

When she was 15, she started her first job as a waitress. “From an early age, I knew I wanted my own money, my own identity, my own career,” she told Vogue in 2008.

Four years later, in 1971, Jill married Bill Stevenson, a former college football player whom she met the summer before graduating high school.

That year she also started college at the University of Delaware, majoring in English.  In 1972, she and Stevenson opened the Stone Balloon Tavern and Concert Hall by the University of Delaware. It would go on to become one of the country’s most successful college bars.

This was not the only job Jill did in her college years. She also modeled for a local agency, but she insists she “wasn’t a model.” “I might’ve done five jobs where you get paid, like, 20 bucks,” she told Vogue in 2008. “But I wasn’t a model.”

By 1975, she and Stevenson had drifted apart and filed for divorce that year. She was in her junior year at the time and decided to take the year off. “Things were a little too rough, too emotional. But I knew I would finish,” she said. She would go on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Delaware in 1975, according to the university. Dr. Jill Biden has been an educator for more than three decades. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., she taught English at a community college in Delaware, at a public high school and at a psychiatric hospital for adolescents.

Dr. Biden earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of Delaware in January of 2007. Her dissertation focused on maximizing student retention in community colleges. She also has two Master’s Degrees — both of which she earned while working and raising a family.  She is the oldest of five sisters.

Later that year, she was set up on a blind date with Joe Biden by Joe’s brother, Frank. When Joe showed up at her front door, 24-year-old Jill recalled thinking: “Thank God it’s only one date.”

The guys I had dated had bell bottoms and clogs. When Joe showed up at my door, I took one look at his perfect suit and his leather loafers and I thought: ‘Thank God it’s only one date,'” she was quoted as saying in The New York Times.

But when the date was over, she had changed her mind drastically, telling her mother: “Mom, I finally met a gentleman,” Vogue reported.

President Joe and First Lady Jill Biden have been married for 43 years. Jill and Joe’s daughter, Ashley, is a social worker, their son, Beau (1969-2015), was a lawyer, former Attorney General of the State of Delaware and a Major in the Delaware Army National Guard, and Hunter is a lawyer and Chairman of the World Food Program USA.

Recently the couple did an interview with People Magazine and they talked about marriage and prayer. During the interview, President Biden says he does not miss mass.  He however relies on prayer to help him lead.  He also said prayer gives him hope. See Peoples Magazine for the full story by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall.

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