How Old Is Jill Biden? Jill Biden Birthday
Jill Biden was born on June 1, 1951 and is 72 years old now.
Birthday: June 1, 1951
How Old - Age: 72
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Jill Biden - Biography
Jill Tracy Biden (née Jacobs, previously Stevenson; born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who is married to the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, making her the Second Lady of the United States since 2009.
She and Joe Biden were married by a Catholic priest on June 17, 1977, at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City. This was four and a half years after his first wife and infant daughter died in a motor vehicle accident; Joe had proposed several times before she accepted, hesitant to take on the commitment of raising his two young sons who had survived the accident. She continued to teach and then, while pregnant, received a Master of Education with a specialty in Reading from West Chester University in 1981. The Bidens' daughter Ashley Blazer was born on June 8, 1981, and Jill stopped working for two years while raising the three children.
The former second couple launched the Biden Foundation in February 2017, with the purpose of allowing them to pursue the causes they cared most about, including focuses upon preventing violence against women, his moonshot initiative, and her interests in community colleges and military families. That same month she was named board chair of Save the Children; she said, "I think [their] emphasis on education fits with my life's work." Her husband is a popular ex-vice president and she received a standing ovation when she was a presenter at the 71st Tony Awards.
In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, in which her husband was running for re-election as vice president, Biden played a modest role. She did not cut back on her teaching schedule and made few solo campaign appearances. This reflected her continuing distaste for both politics and public speaking, even though the Obama campaign considered her valuable in connecting to military families, teachers, and women.
In May 2014, she gave the commencement address and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Villanova University, one of her alma maters.
