She previously served as second lady of the United States from to when her husband was vice president. She is believed to be the first wife of a vice president or president to hold a salaried job during the majority of her husband's tenure. She married then-widower Joe Biden in , becoming the stepmother of Beau and Hunter.
Biden and her husband also have a daughter together, Ashley Biden , born in Biden has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and 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. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital.
She has published a memoir and two children's books. Bill to attend business school and then worked his way up in the banking field. As a child, she lived with her family in Hatboro, Pennsylvania , and relocated when she was eight to Mahwah, New Jersey. He held that position for twenty years. 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.
Jill Jacobs always intended to have a career. Jacobs enrolled in Brandywine Junior College in Pennsylvania for one semester.
She switched her enrollment to the University of Delaware [ 20 ] becoming a student in its College of Arts and Sciences , [ 25 ] declaring English as her major. She met Senator Joe Biden in March She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts [ 28 ] in English [ 20 ] from the University of Delaware in Mark's High School in Wilmington. She continued to teach while working on a master's degree at West Chester State College , taking one course per semester. She then returned to work, teaching English, acting as a reading specialist, and teaching history to emotionally disabled students.
