She is a professor of writing at Northern Virginia Community College. Biden continues to advocate for military families, cancer research, and education for young women. The following year, she published JOEY: The Story of Joe Biden, her second children’s book.Īs First Lady of the United States, Dr. Biden’s memoir, Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself, became a New York Times bestselling book. Together, they pushed for a pledge to cure cancer through the White House Cancer Moonshot.Īfter leaving office in 2017, the Bidens established the Biden Foundation and launched the Biden Cancer Initiative. Finnegan is Naomi’s younger sister, born in 2000 and named after her great-grandmother. Joe Bidens first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, is mostly remembered for the car accident that killed her and the couples baby daughter and enveloped her husband in a cloud of grief that has shaped. Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden lost their son Beau to brain cancer. Joe Biden and his first wife Nelia with sons Hunter and Beau. As Second Lady of the United States, she advocated for military families, community colleges, and educational opportunities for women and girls. Biden taught at Northern Virginia Community College. In 1972, Biden’s first wife, Neilia, was driving with their three children when she got into an accident with a tractor trailer. She earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership from the University of Delaware in 2007.ĭuring her husband’s vice-presidency, Dr. In 1993, she took a position at Delaware Technical Community College. She later taught at Rockford Center, a psychiatric hospital in Delaware, while working toward a Master of Arts in English from Villanova University. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she pursued a Master of Education from West Chester University. Mark’s High School in Wilmington, and later Claymont High School. She was named after Vice President Biden’s late daughter who died in 1972. In 1976, Jill Biden began teaching at St. Naomi is the 26-year-old daughter of Hunter and his first wife and Kathleen Biden. A member of the Democratic Party from the state of Delaware, Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972, and was sworn into office at the age of 30 he was later reelected five times and is Delawares longest-serving U.S. She became the mother to his two sons, Joseph “Beau” III and Hunter, and in 1981 their daughter, Ashley, was born. The United States Senate career of Joe Biden began on January 3, 1973, and ended on January 15, 2009. On June 17, 1977, they were married in New York City at the United Nations Chapel. That same year, she met Senator Joseph R. She attended the University of Delaware, receiving a bachelor’s degree in English in 1975. President Joe Biden on Saturday paid an emotional visit to the Delaware grave sites of his first wife and their baby to mark the anniversary of their deaths. Growing up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Upper Moreland High School in 1969. Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey. Official White House Photo by Cheriss May