However, she has recalled that she always had loved being in English class, and her classmates have said she was a good student. She attended Upper Moreland High School, where, by her own later description, she was somewhat rebellious and enjoyed her social life, along with being a prankster. She began working at age 15, which included waitressing in Ocean City, New Jersey. Jill Jacobs always intended to have a career. Later, Jacobs independently took membership classes at nearby Abington Presbyterian Church and, at age 16, was confirmed. Her parents labeled themselves as 'agnostic realists' and did not attend church, but she often attended Sunday services at a Presbyterian church with her grandmother. In 1961, the Jacobs family moved to Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Philadelphia, and Donald became the president and CEO of InterCounty Savings and Loan in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. Her father was the CEO of the Mahwah Savings and Loan Association.

Īs a child, she and her family lived in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, and relocated when she was eight to Mahwah, New Jersey. Her mother, Bonny Jean (Godfrey) Jacobs, was a homemaker of English and Scottish descent. The name had then been changed to Jacobs, about a month after the family had entered the United States. His family name had been Giacoppo (or some variation thereof) before his father, and others in the family, had emigrated from the Sicilian village of Gesso in Italy. Bill to attend business school and then worked his way up in the banking field. Navy signalman during World War II who used the G.I. Her father, Donald Carl Jacobs, was a bank teller and U.S. Jill Tracy Jacobs was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey. She has published a memoir and two children's books. She is the founder of the Biden Breast Health Initiative non-profit organization, co-founder of the Book Buddies program, co-founder of the Biden Foundation, is active in Delaware Boots on the Ground, and with Michelle Obama is co-founder of Joining Forces. Biden and her husband also have a daughter together, Ashley Biden, born in 1981. She married Joe Biden in 1977, becoming the stepmother of Beau and Hunter, two sons from Joe Biden's first marriage. Following this, she was an English and writing instructor for fifteen years at Delaware Technical & Community College.īorn in Hammonton, New Jersey, Biden grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Biden taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital.

She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware, master's degrees in education and English from West Chester University and Villanova University, and returned to the University of Delaware for a doctoral degree in education. Since 2009, Biden has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and is believed to be the first wife of a vice president or president to hold a salaried position during the majority of her husband's tenure.

She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who has been the first lady of the United States since 2021 as the wife of President Joe Biden.

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