(CNN)Here is a look at the life of Jill Biden, wife of 46th US President Joe Biden.
Personal
Birth date: June 3, 1951
Birth place: Hammonton, New Jersey
Birth name: Jill Tracy Jacobs
Father: Donald Jacobs, banker
Mother: Bonny Jean (Godfrey) Jacobs
Marriages: Joe Biden (June 17, 1977-present); Bill Stevenson (1970-1975, divorced)
Children: with Joe Biden: Ashley
Education: University of Delaware, B.A., English, 1975; West Chester University, M.Ed, 1981; Villanova University, M.A. English, 1987; University of Delaware, Ed.D, 2007
Religion: Roman Catholic
Other Facts
Biden has been an educator for decades. Taught in public high schools for 13 years. She also taught at a psychiatric hospital for adolescents.
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The first first lady to have a job outside of the East Wing.
The first first lady to hold a doctorate degree.
Was a presenter on Jeopardy!
Has said Joe Biden proposed to her five times before she agreed to marry him.
She often runs five miles five days a week and has run in the Marine Corps Marathon.
Timeline
1991-1993 - Teaches at Brandywine High School in Wilmington, Delaware.
1993 - Starts the Biden Breast Health Initiative.
1993-2008 - Teaches English at Delaware Technical and Community College.
2009-present - English professor at Northern Virginia Community College.
January 20, 2009-January 20, 2017 - Second lady of the United States.
October 5, 2010 - Hosts the first ever White House Summit on Community Colleges with President Barack Obama.
April 2011 - Launches the national veterans' campaign, "Joining Forces," with Michelle Obama.
June 5, 2012 - "Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops," a children's book, is published.
September 9, 2015 - Appointed honorary chair of the College Promise Advisory Board. The board is created by Obama to promote at least two years of free community college.
February 1, 2017 - Launch of the Biden Foundation, an organization that focusing on seven issues: foreign policy; Biden's cancer initiative; community colleges and military families; protecting children; equality; ending violence against women; and strengthening the middle class.
April 25, 2019 - The Biden Foundation suspends operations after Joe Biden announces he is running for president.
May 7, 2019 - Biden's memoir, "Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself," is published.
June 30, 2020 - Children's book, "Joey: The Story of Joe Biden," is published.
January 20, 2021 - Becomes the first lady of the United States.
May 8, 2022 - Biden makes an unannounced trip to Ukraine, which for the last 10 weeks has been under invasion by Russia. At a converted school that now serves as temporary housing for displaced citizens, Biden meets with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska.
January 11, 2023 - Has two cancerous lesions removed.
