Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957, at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City, to then Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy and socialite Jacqueline Kennedy. Kennedy was born a year after her mother had a miscarriage in August 1956, to her older sister named Arabella Kennedy.[9]

She spent the first few years of her life in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., while her father was still in the United States Senate. In November 1960, her father was elected 35th president of the United States, two weeks later on November 25, her mother gave birth and had a little brother named John F. Kennedy Jr.[10]

On January 20, 1961, Kennedy's father inaugurated and became the 35th president of the United States when she was three years old. Her family became the immediate new first family and moved into the White House.[11]

During her childhood in the White House, Kennedy was often seen playing with her father in the Oval Office with her brother underneath the presidential desk.

When Kennedy was five years old, her father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, just days before her sixth birthday. On November 25, her father's state funeral was held in Washington, D.C., where she was accompanied by her family.

On December 6, 1963, the Kennedy's officially moved out of the White House, moved back to Georgetown and later left public life.

Kennedy and her family later moved to Manhattan in New York. She graduated from Concord Academy in 1975. She then graduated from Harvard University's Radcliffe College with a bachelor's degree in Arts in 1980. Kennedy also graduated from Columbia Law School with a law degree in 1988.

After graduating, she worked as a research assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Film and Television Department in New York.

She is also the honorary president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and a member of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Committee.[12]

Caroline Kennedy met exhibition designer Edwin Schlossberg while working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Film and Television Department in New York City. They married on July 19, 1986, at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts.[13] The couple has three children, two daughters named Rose Schlossberg and Tatiana Schlossberg and one son named Jack Schlossberg.[14]

In July 2013, then President Barack Obama nominated Kennedy as the next United States ambassador to Japan.[15][16] In October 2013, she was confirmed by the Senate as the next ambassador.[17] On November 12, 2013, Kennedy was sworn in as the 29th United States ambassador to Japan by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Kennedy was the first female ambassador from the United States to the country.

As ambassador, Kennedy had strongly advocated for literacy, women's rights, and LGBT rights in the country.

Kennedy served as the ambassador to Japan from 2013 until her resignation upon the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017.[18]

During the 2020 United States presidential election, Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg appeared virtually at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.[19][20] Kennedy and her son strongly endorsed then former vice president Joe Biden for president.[21][22]

In December 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kennedy as the next United States ambassador to Australia.[23][24] By May 2022, she was confirmed by the Senate as the next ambassador.[25] Kennedy was sworn in as the 27th ambassador to Australia on June 10, 2022.[26]