Advocate for Military Families and Women's Rights In 2010, she hosted the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges with President Obama and continued to work on related outreach for the administration as later seen with the 2012 Community College to Career bus tour. Second Ladyīiden has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College since 2009, the same year that her husband was sworn in as vice president of the United States after the 2008 presidential win of Barack Obama. Biden also earned her doctorate in education from the University of Delaware in January 2007. She went on to teach for three years at Claymont High School, and then at Delaware Technical and Community College. While working in a psychiatric hospital - where she taught English to adolescents with emotional disabilities for five years - Biden earned two master's degrees, from Villanova University and West Chester University. Within two years, Biden was 'itching' for more, according to an article in Vogue magazine, and decided to return to school. Biden helped her husband raise his two sons from a previous marriage, and they had a daughter of their own, Ashley, in 1981. In the spring of 1975, Biden was set up on a blind date with then-U.S. Biden then took a year off from school, knowing all the while that she would return and finish. By their junior year, the couple had drifted apart and eventually divorced. The two decided to attend the University of Delaware together, and Biden majored in English. Around the same time, she married Bill Stevenson, a boy she had begun dating in the summer of 1969 - the same year she had graduated from high school. Though she set out to study fashion merchandising at a junior college in Pennsylvania, Biden soon found her studies unsatisfying and left school. She spent the majority of her childhood, however, in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with her parents and four younger sisters. Early Lifeīiden was born Jill Tracy Jacobs on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey.

vice president Joe Biden, she was America's second lady and helped raise awareness about supporting military families, education and women's issues. Biden has taught at community colleges throughout most of her career and later developed related college programs with backing from the White House. Having always enjoyed English classes in high school, Biden eventually earned two master's degrees in the subject and then a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware.

Jill Biden spent most of her childhood in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

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