Jill Biden: Joe Biden's wife, the American Brigitte Macron?
Jill Biden is therefore the new first lady for the next 4 years. This teacher is already well known to Americans, but will now have a role from another dimension.
[Updated January 20, 2021 at 4:51 pm] The new American first lady is going to have to get used to her new life, but she's not unfamiliar with the effervescence of the heights of political life. Jill Biden intends to make a place for herself on the political agenda, but in her own way, very far from governance and in a very different way from Melania Trump. Jill Biden, before being Joe Biden's wife, is a teacher. Some will have noticed that she shares this characteristic with the French first lady. About her, Brigitte Macron also seems very enthusiastic. "We are both teachers. She is very invested from everything I have read about her. I think that as soon as possible the presidents will meet", she reacted on Wednesday morning on RTL, adding: "I know that the two presidents spoke to each other, considered a meeting with the wives".
A teacher of conviction
Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden has been one of the faces of Joe Biden's campaign. The Americans already knew her as a "second lady", since her husband served as vice president of the United States, under the presidency of Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2017. Jill Biden turns out to be a very active woman. , with a very rich professional life. She remains the first woman with the title of "second lady" to have had a paid job outside the walls of the White House.
Joe Biden's wife has a bank employee as a father and a housewife as a mother. Now 69 years old, her "hyperactivity" resulted in her resuming her studies in Educational Science in the 2000s, before obtaining a doctorate in this field in 2007. Her passion for education. teaching has always been present in Joe Biden's wife. She officiates at Northern Virginia Community College. However, she put her job on hold in order to support her husband as much as possible in his campaign and now to support him in the White House. The companion of the American president also works as an English teacher in public schools in Delaware, with children victims of emotional disorders. The former "second lady" herself says: "Teaching is not what I do, it is what I am".
Because of his wife's profession, Joe Biden would particularly listen to her on education issues. The companion of the Head of State is therefore an important ally in this area. Jill Biden is even "a kind of chief adviser" according to Ted Kaufman, a close friend of the former vice president of the United States. It is in particular the teacher who would have convinced her husband to appoint a woman as running mate. This idea was implemented with the appointment of Kamala Harris.
Jill Biden, family pillar
Joe and Jill Biden married 43 years ago, in 1977. The couple had a child in 1981, Ashley Biden. During this period, the teacher had put her professional life aside in order to devote herself to her family, for a two-year break. During a speech on August 18, 2020 in a Delaware classroom, she called for unity. "How do you reunite a broken family? The same way you unite a nation, with love and understanding, and with little acts of kindness. With courage. With unwavering faith," she preached.
These words are not trivial, since Jill Biden appeared in Joe Biden's life three years after he suffered a tragedy: the loss of his first wife and his 13-month-old daughter in 1972 in a car accident. car. So as children, Hunter and Beau Biden were also on board, but they survived. During the same speech, the former "second lady" recounted a distant memory, dating back to the early years of the couple's relationship. "Joe always said to the boys, 'Mum sent us Jill'." Another tragedy has arisen in the life of the former senator. Her son Beau Biden died in 2015 from brain cancer.
