Jill Biden

Year Honored: 2018

Birth: 1951 -

Born in: New Jersey

Biography

Dr. Jill Biden is a lifelong educator and served as Second Lady of the United States from 2009 – 2017; as well as First Lady of the United States during the 2020-2024 Presidential Term.

As Second Lady, she worked to underscore the critical role of community colleges in creating the best, most educated workforce in the world. She hosted the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges with President Obama and led the Community College to Career Tour across the country. She also brought significant attention to the struggles of military families, in part through her and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Joining Forces initiative to support military families worldwide. In her current term as First Lady, Dr. Biden continues many of the same initiatives for education, military families, and fighting cancer.

Today, she continues to teach at a community college in Northern Virginia and is the honorary chair of the College Promise National Advisory Board, leading the effort to make community colleges free for responsible students. In continuing her full-time job even while serving as First Lady, Dr. Biden has said, “teaching isn’t just what I do, it’s who I am.”

Dr. Biden also released a children’s book in 2012 — ‘Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops’ — about how her family dealt with her son Beau’s deployment to Iraq; a memoir in 2019 titled, ‘Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself;’ and a second children’s book published in 2020, ‘JOEY: The Story of Joe Biden.’
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Sources and Additional Readings

A&E Networks Television. (2021, August 24). Jill Biden. Biography.com. Retrieved November 4, 2021, from https://www.biography.com/us-first-lady/jill-biden.

The United States Government. (2021, April 7). Dr. Jill Biden: First lady. The White House. Retrieved November 4, 2021, from https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/dr-jill-biden/.