Jill Biden

Jill Tracy Jacobs was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey to Donald Carl Jacobs and Bonny Jean Godfrey Jacobs. As a child, she lived in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, and relocated at the age of eight to Mahwah, New Jersey. She is the eldest of five sisters.

Jacobs always intended to have a career. She began working at age 15, as a waitress in Ocean City, New Jersey. She attended Upper Moreland High School, where by her own later description, she always had a love of English class, and her classmates have said she was a good student. She graduated in 1969.

She attended universities such as, University of Delaware, Villanova University, West Chester University, and Brandywine Junior College. She also taught at schools such as, St. Marks High School, Brandywine High School, and Delaware Technical & Community College.

Jill Jacobs with then Senator Joe Biden in the early 1970s.

Jill and Joe Biden were married by a catholic priest on June 17, 1977. They were married at the United Nations in New York City. In June 1981 she gave birth to their daughter named Ashley Biden and also helped raise her husband' two sons from his first marriage, Beau and Hunter, while she did help raise them, she did not formally adopt them.

Jill as Second Lady of the United States, alongside her husband at the inauguration ball on January 20, 2009.

Biden assumed the role and duties as the second lady of the United States succeeding Lynne Cheney when her husband inaugurated as the 47th vice president of the United States on January 20, 2009.

She was believed to have been the first second lady to hold a paying job while her husband was vice president. Since 2009, she has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College.

Official portrait of Jill Biden as Second Lady of the United States.

By her White House staff and by her preference, she was referred to as "Dr. Jill Biden". Biden served as the second lady from 2009 until her husband's term ended as vice president in January 2017.

Official portrait of Jill Biden as Second Lady of the United States, March 2009.

Jill Biden next to her husband as he's being sworn in at his 2021 presidential inauguration.

Official portrait of Jill Biden as First Lady of the United States.

President Joe Biden being sworn in at his presidential inauguration in 2021, surrounded by members of his family as he takes the presidential oath of office.

Biden assumed the role and duties as the first lady of the United States succeeding Melania Trump, when her husband inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. At the age of 69, Biden is the oldest woman to assume the role of first lady, and is the first Italian American first lady.

Biden continued teaching at Northern Virginia College, and she is the first sitting wife of a president to hold a paying job while her husband's term as president.[1][2] She became an immediate member of the Biden family when her and her husband married in June 1977.