[Music] Jill Biden is an American educator who has been the first lady of the United States since 2021 as the wife of President Joe Biden she was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president born June 3rd 1951 aged 73 years hamon New Jersey children Ashley Biden education University of Delaware 2007 more height 5' 6 spouse Joe Biden M 1977 Bill Stevenson M 1970 to 1975 marriage location New York New York Jill Biden net worth $10 million according to Forbes education and career marriages and family Jacobs enrolled in brandy wine junor College in Pennsylvania for one semester she intended to study fashion merchandising but found it unsatisfying she married Bill Stevenson a former college football player in February 1970 taking the name Jill Stevenson within a couple of years he opened the Stone Balloon in Newark Delaware near the University of Delaware it became one of the most successful College bars in the nation she switched her enrollment to the University of Delaware becoming a student in its College of Arts and Sciences declaring English as her her major she took a year off from college and did a little modeling for a local agency in Wilmington to supplement her income she and Stevenson drifted apart and they separated in 1974 she met Senator Joe Biden in March 1975 they met on a blind date set up by his brother Frank who had known her in college though Biden had seen her photograph in a local advertisement although he was nearly 9 years her senior she was impressed by his more formal appearance and manners compared to the college men she had known and after their first date she told her mother mom I finally met a gentleman meanwhile she was going through turbulent divorce proceedings with Stevenson she petitioned for a half share in the Stone Balloon Club but the court case ended without it being awarded to her a civil divorce was granted in May 1975 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Delaware in 1975 she she began her career as a substitute teacher for the Wilmington Public School System then taught high school English full-time for a year at St Mark's High School in Wilmington around this time she spent 5 months working in Biden's Senate Office this included weekly trips with the Senator's mobile Outreach operation to the southern portions of the state she and Joe Biden were married on June 17th 1977 at the chapel at the United Nations in New York City it was described afterward by his father Joseph senior as a very private Affair that was officiated by a Jesuit priest the nature of the ceremony in religious terms is unclear this was 4 and a half years after his first wife nyia Hunter Biden and infant daughter Naomi Christina Biden died in a motor vehicle accident Joe had proposed several times before she accepted as she was wary of entering the public Spotlight anxious to remain focused on her own career and initially hesitant to take on the commitment of raising his two young sons who had survived the accident they spent their honeymoon at Lake Balaton in the Hungarian People's Republic behind the Iron Curtain she raised bow and Hunter and they called her mom but she did not formally adopt them she then returned to work teaching English acting as a reading specialist and teaching history to emotionally disabled students she taught in the Adolescent program at the Rockford Center psychiatric hospital for 5 years in the 1980s Biden received her second graduate degree a master of arts in English from banova University in 1987 she was not considered a political person at the time and during her husband's unsuccessful bid for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination she said she would continue her job of teaching emotionally disabled children even if she became the first lady she taught for three years at Claymont High School in the early 1990s she taught English at Brandy Wine High School in Wilmington several of her students there later recalled her as genuinely caring about them in in all she spent 13 years teaching in public high school