Jill Biden
Jill Biden shared a cubicle with another teacher at Northern Virginia Community College while her husband was vice president of the United States. She persuaded the Secret Service agents who accompanied her to dress as plainly as possible. Her students often had no idea who she was and simply called her "Dr. B." She told a colleague how she handled the awkward question.
"My standard line when students ask me if I am married to the VP is to say that I am one of his relatives." She added that this usually quieted them.
How does a girl from a Pennsylvania suburb end up second lady and then first lady of the United States while still grading papers? Why did she resist public life for years, and what made her step into it anyway? And what did the White House ask of her in return?
Jill Tracy Jacobs was born on the 3rd of June 1951 in Hammonton, New Jersey, the oldest of five sisters. Her father, Donald Carl Jacobs, had been a bank teller and a Navy signalman in the Second World War. He used the G.I. Bill to attend business school and built a banking career. His family had once carried the name Giacoppo, or a variation of it, before relatives emigrated from Sicily. The name became Jacobs about a month after they arrived. Her mother, Bonny Jean, was a homemaker of English and Scottish descent.
The family moved several times. They lived in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, then in Mahwah, New Jersey, when she was eight. In 1961 they settled in Willow Grove, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. There Donald became president and CEO of InterCounty Savings and Loan, a post he held for twenty years. Her parents called themselves "agnostic realists" and skipped church. Jill went with her grandmother to a Presbyterian service, took classes at Abington Presbyterian Church on her own, and was confirmed at sixteen.
At fifteen she started working, and one job had her waitressing in Ocean City, New Jersey. At Upper Moreland High School she was a prankster who enjoyed her social life. She still loved English class, and she graduated in 1969.
Brandywine Junior College came next, but she lasted only one semester. Fashion merchandising left her unsatisfied. In February 1970 she married Bill Stevenson, a former college football player. Within a couple of years he opened the Stone Balloon in Newark, Delaware, which grew into one of the most successful college bars in the nation. She moved to the University of Delaware to study English and did some modeling in Wilmington to supplement her income. By 1974 she and Stevenson had separated.
In March 1975 Senator Joe Biden's brother Frank arranged a blind date. Frank had known her in college. Biden was nearly nine years her senior, and his formal manners stood out from those of the college men she knew. Afterward she told her mother, "Mom, I finally met a gentleman." Her divorce was turbulent. She petitioned for a half-share of the Stone Balloon, but the court did not award it, and the divorce was granted in May 1975.
On the 17th of June 1977 the couple married at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City. A Jesuit priest officiated. Joseph Sr. described it afterward as "a very private affair." It came four and a half years after the deaths of Biden's first wife, Neilia, and infant daughter, Naomi Christina, in a car accident. He had proposed several times. She worried about the spotlight, wanted to protect her own career, and hesitated over raising his two young sons. Their honeymoon was spent at Lake Balaton in the Hungarian People's Republic.
Beau and Hunter called her Mom, though she never formally adopted them. On the 8th of June 1981 the couple's daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden, was born, and Jill stopped working for two years.
A Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Delaware arrived in 1975, the same year she met Joe Biden. She started as a substitute teacher in the Wilmington public schools and then taught high school English full-time for a year at St. Mark's High School. For five months she also worked in Biden's Senate office. That job included weekly trips with the senator's mobile outreach operation to the southern part of Delaware.
She kept teaching while she earned a master's degree, taking a single course each semester at West Chester State College. The Master of Education, with a reading specialty, came in 1981. After her two years at home with the children, she returned as an English teacher and reading specialist. She also taught history to emotionally disabled students. For five years in the 1980s she worked in the adolescent program at the Rockford Center psychiatric hospital.
Villanova University awarded her a Master of Arts in English in 1987. She was not seen as a political person. When her husband made his unsuccessful bid for the 1988 Democratic nomination, she said she would keep teaching emotionally disabled children even if she became first lady. She went on to teach three years at Claymont High School and then at Brandywine High School in Wilmington. Several former Brandywine students later remembered her as genuinely caring. Altogether she gave thirteen years to public high schools.
From 1993 through 2008 she taught English composition and remedial writing at the Stanton campus of Delaware Technical & Community College. She stressed building students' confidence. Of that work she said, "I feel like I can make a greater difference in their lives." She singled out women returning to school, who she said were "so focused."
In 1993 four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer. Her response was the Biden Breast Health Initiative, a nonprofit that brings breast health programs to Delaware schools and groups free of charge. In its first fifteen years it informed more than 7,000 high school girls. In 2007 she helped found Book Buddies, which supplies books to low-income children. She also became active in Delaware Boots on the Ground, which supports military families.
In January 2007, at age 55, she received a Doctor of Education in educational leadership from the University of Delaware. She had studied under her birth name, Jill Jacobs. The dissertation, titled Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs, was published as Jill Jacobs-Biden. Outside school she runs five miles, five times a week, and has entered the Marine Corps Marathon and the Philadelphia Half Marathon.
In January 2009 she moved into Number One Observatory Circle, the vice presidential residence in Washington, and began teaching two English courses. Her base was the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College, the second largest community college in the nation. She started as an adjunct professor. She is believed to be the first second lady to hold a paying job during her husband's term. White House announcements called her "Dr. Jill Biden," which was her preference.
Her office staff numbered eight and occupied a corner suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Catherine Russell served as chief of staff. In fall 2009 the college gave her a two-year appointment as full-time faculty. In fall 2011 she became a permanent associate professor, teaching three courses on two days each week. Colleagues and staff came to know her habits. She was compassionate and engaged with her students' lives. She also assigned heavy homework and graded hard.
Michelle Obama summed up their travels together in four words: "Jill is always grading papers." The New York Times examined her e-mails from the period. It found she had shared White House perks, such as tickets to a garden visit and a holiday tour, with fellow teachers. It also found she asked the college for permission whenever official travel took her away.
After her husband left office in 2017, she kept teaching full-time on a salary of close to $100,000. In May 2018 she gave a commencement address at Bishop State Community College in Alabama. She told graduates, "if you can walk across this stage, you can do anything." In February 2019 she spoke to the graduating class of the Newport News Apprentice School. She compared their days to "a jigsaw puzzle that never seems to get completed."
Her husband took office as president on the 20th of January 2021. At 69 she was the oldest person to begin as first lady. In December 2020 Joseph Epstein of The Wall Street Journal had urged her to drop the "Dr." because she is not a medical doctor. The op-ed drew widespread backlash, especially among professional women. Melania Trump also skipped the traditional tea and tour for the incoming first lady.
She returned to NOVA teaching over Zoom, becoming the first wife of a sitting president to hold a paying job outside the White House. Her classes were often listed as taught by "staff" for security reasons. Some nights she stayed up in the residence reviewing assignments. In September 2021 she went back to the classroom in person, remarking, "thank God we all got off Zoom." Students now passed through a metal detector. She described her method for juggling it all: "You can't do anything in a haphazard way."
In December 2024 she announced that she had "taught... my final class ever at Northern Virginia Community College."
Before one 2004 strategy meeting, Jill Biden walked in wearing a swimsuit with the word "NO" written on her stomach. She opposed the Iraq War and did not want her husband to run for president that year. Then George W. Bush won reelection, and she changed her mind. "I literally wore black for a week," she said, and she urged Joe to run next time.
During the 2008 primary campaign she taught during the week and joined him on weekends. She called herself "apolitical if that's at all possible being married to Joe for 30 years." Once he became Barack Obama's running mate, she wore a Blue Star Mothers Club pin for her stepson Beau, who was deployed to Iraq. Audiences connected with her even though she was not a polished speaker. In fall 2008 she still taught four days a week and graded papers on the campaign bus.
In 2012 she played a modest role. She cut back neither her teaching nor her distaste for public speaking, and she made few solo appearances.
In May 2015 Beau died of brain cancer. She called the loss "totally shattering" and said she never gave up hope until the end. She stopped praying and attending church for four years. Conversations with people on the 2019 campaign trail began to restore her faith. On the 21st of October 2015 she stood beside her husband in the Rose Garden as he said he would not seek the 2016 nomination. She believed he "would have been the best president."
After 2017 the Bidens launched the Biden Foundation, and she became board chair of Save the Children. Book deals with Flatiron Books helped fund a $2.7 million vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The couple reported about $15 million in income by 2019, including $700,000 for her speaking engagements. Her May 2019 memoir, Where the Light Enters, drew praise from USA Today as an often-poignant account of her journey.
The 2020 campaign launched on the 25th of April 2019, and she was a central voice in the decision. A Town and Country headline called her possibly her husband's "greatest political asset." Days later she addressed women who had said her husband's physical contact made them uncomfortable. She said he would need to be "a better judge" of when people approached him. Her remark that it was "time to move on" from Anita Hill's 1991 testimony also drew attention. On Hunter Biden she said, "Hunter did nothing wrong. And that's the bottom line." The impeachment trial fractured her friendship with Senator Lindsey Graham.
For spring 2020 she reluctantly took leave from NOVA to campaign full-time. In Iowa she sometimes held more events than her husband and gave voters her campaign e-mail address. On Super Tuesday, the 3rd of March, she stepped in front of a protester rushing toward him. Asked about it, she said, "I'm a good Philly girl." In June 2020 her children's book Joey told his story, including his childhood stutter.
At the virtual Democratic convention she spoke from her old classroom at Brandywine High School. "How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole." In October she urged women in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania to remember, "You, the women, will decide the future of this state."
In April 2011 Jill Biden and Michelle Obama founded Joining Forces to highlight the needs of American military families. The program went quiet under Melania Trump, and Biden revived it. She visited 34 military installations as first lady, including Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington state. Joining Forces held more than 70 events on employment, entrepreneurship and related issues. In November 2021 it helped launch the Hidden Helpers Coalition for 2.3 million children of wounded, ill or injured service members and veterans. Seventy-eight organizations signed on.
Community colleges were her other long-running subject. In May 2009 President Obama put her in charge of an effort to raise awareness of their value. In February 2012 she toured by bus with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to show how colleges and local businesses could work together. As first lady she led the public push for free community college tuition, part of the American Families Plan and then the Build Back Better Act. The price tag started above $100 billion. In February 2022 she told a community college summit that she was "disappointed." The provision did not survive into the Inflation Reduction Act.
In health, she was a visible voice for COVID-19 vaccination. She traveled to regions known for anti-vaccine sentiment and for dislike of her husband, because the administration thought she could reach people there. She caught COVID-19 herself in August 2022 and again in September 2023. In January 2023 she had Mohs surgery to remove two basal-cell carcinoma lesions from her face and chest.
February 2024 brought the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research, backed by $100 million in federal money from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. She said it grew out of a meeting with Maria Shriver. In April 2025 she became chair of a Women's Health Network created with the Milken Institute.
In October 2024 she unveiled a $5 million overhaul of the White House public tour, two years in the making. She had pressed for it after learning the tour had gone decades without significant upgrades. Her verdict on the old version was that it was not "dynamic." The new tour added digital displays and five 3D models showing the building from 1792 to 2024. Rooms once closed to the public opened up, and the tour began to accommodate blind visitors. By October 2022 she had been to 40 states, more than her husband had visited.
On Mother's Day weekend in May 2022, Jill Biden crossed the Slovakia-Ukraine border without announcing it. She was traveling without her husband and reached Uzhhorod, where she met displaced schoolchildren and Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska. "I wanted to come on Mother's Day," she said, adding that the war had been brutal. It was the first U.S. first lady visit to a war zone without her husband since Laura Bush went to Afghanistan in 2008. It was also Zelenska's first public appearance since the invasion began. Earlier on that trip she met refugees in Romania and Slovakia.
Her first solo trip abroad had come in July 2021, when she went to Tokyo. She met Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace and watched the Olympic opening ceremony. A month earlier, at the G7 summit in Cornwall, she and the Duchess of Cambridge visited primary school students. They wrote a CNN op-ed on early childhood care. In October 2021 the couple met Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace to discuss poverty and climate change.
She had visited Africa five times as second lady. Her first trip there as first lady came in February 2023, to Namibia and Kenya. In Windhoek she gave a speech on democracy and women's empowerment. In Kenya's Kajiado County she saw the effects of the Horn of Africa drought.
In May 2023 she and her step-granddaughter Finnegan represented the United States at the coronation of Charles III and Camilla. No first lady had attended a British coronation before. The next month she and Ashley were guests at the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan. In July she traveled to Paris to mark the American return to UNESCO. By May 2023 she had logged more travel than her husband, the vice president or the second gentleman.
In July 2024 she led the American delegation at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, and in October she attended Claudia Sheinbaum's inauguration in Mexico. In December 2024 she made her last foreign trip as first lady. In Catania, Italy, she spoke to American service members on behalf of Joining Forces. She also visited Gesso in Messina, the ancestral hometown of her father's family. In Abu Dhabi she toured the Cleveland Clinic as part of Cancer Moonshot. In Qatar she was keynote speaker at the 2024 Doha Forum. She finished in Paris with her daughter at the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral.
In October 2021 a Zogby Analytics online poll ranked Jill Biden seventh among twelve recent first ladies. Her numbers then slid. A CNN poll showed 58 percent favorable at her husband's inauguration and 34 percent favorable by June-July 2022. As she left in January 2025, it recorded 33 percent favorable, 31 percent unfavorable and 35 percent unsure. Such a drop is unusual, since first ladies usually poll better than their husbands. Explanations included her more openly political role, rising polarization, and how the poll counted "no opinion" answers. She remained more popular among Republicans than either the president or the vice president.
At the UnidosUS conference in July 2022 she said Latino Americans were as "unique" as tacos. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists responded, "We are not tacos." She apologized through a spokesperson. Even so, she became the most requested surrogate in the administration that fall, appearing in about 40 speaking events or fundraisers. By year's end she was suffering from exhaustion and laryngitis. Advisers valued her as a top fundraiser, and in 2022 she organized seven fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee.
In April 2023, after the NCAA women's basketball final, she invited both LSU and the losing Iowa team to the White House. The New York Times called it an "unforced error." Her spokesperson walked it back, and only LSU was invited. LSU's Angel Reese first took offense, but she and Biden hugged during the May 2023 visit.
On style, a pair of black Stuart Weitzman boots stamped with the word "vote" sold out immediately in September 2020. On the 13th of February 2021 she posted a photo of herself buying cupcakes in a scrunchie, and it went viral. On The Kelly Clarkson Show she said, "I still don't understand it."
The 27th of June 2024 changed everything. After her husband's debate performance, Democrats called for him to leave the race. At the watch party she told him, "You answered every question, you knew all the facts." She insisted she would "not let those 90 minutes define the four years he's been president." Critics compared her to Edith Wilson and to Lady Macbeth. Her husband's circle of advisers shrank, and she resented the friends and Democrats abandoning him. On the 21st of July 2024 his withdrawal was announced on a weekend, a timing she had argued would make it look like his own choice.
A spate of postmortems followed. One of them, Original Sin, portrayed her as deeply involved and unreceptive to doubts. She objected to criticism from "so-called friends," and called Alexandra Pelosi's Lady Macbeth comparison "very hurtful." In May 2025 Leo Terrell suggested she should face criminal charges for "elder abuse," a claim he repeated in posts on X.
She has answered with a book. View from the East Wing: A Memoir, from Gallery Books, is scheduled for June 2026. In it she means to discuss for the first time how she felt as her husband's reelection campaign ended.
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Did Jill Biden keep teaching while she was first lady?
Yes. She resumed teaching at Northern Virginia Community College, first over Zoom and then in person from September 2021. She taught her final class in December 2024.
What is Joining Forces?
It is a national initiative she founded with Michelle Obama in April 2011 to highlight the needs of American military families. She revived it as first lady.
What degrees does Jill Biden hold?
She holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware, master's degrees from West Chester and Villanova, and a Doctor of Education in educational leadership from the University of Delaware, received in January 2007.
What did she do on her 2022 trip to Ukraine?
In May 2022 she crossed from Slovakia to Uzhhorod without her husband, met displaced schoolchildren and Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska, and said she came on Mother's Day to show support.
What role did she play when her husband left the 2024 race?
She stood by him after the June debate and, by the account given, advocated a weekend announcement of his withdrawal on the 21st of July 2024 so it would look like his own choice.
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- 133News'It's unfortunate': Ashley Biden confirms first lady snubbed her mother on traditional White House handoverOliver O'Connell — January 19, 2021
- 135NewsFirst professor: Jill Biden to make history as a first lady with a day jobNovember 12, 2020
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- 143NewsFirst lady Jill Biden visits Washington military bases in support of familiesJim Brunner et al. — March 9, 2021
- 144Joining Forces: New Year's UpdateWhite House — January 5, 2022
- 146Dr. Jill Biden: First LadyWhite House
- 147Joining Forces and Hidden Helpers Coalition Pledge Support to Military and Veteran Children in Caregiving FamiliesWhite House — November 10, 2021
- 149Hidden Helpers Coalition PartnershipChildren's Hospital Association
- 150MOAA Joins Hidden Helpers CoalitionJen Goodale — Military Officers Association of America — December 21, 2021
- 151Veteran caregiver kids: America wants to hear your storyKaren Jowers — November 19, 2022
- 152NewsJill Biden leading the way on community college tuition coverage, Biden saysApril 28, 2021
- 153NewsHouse Democrats Rally to Preserve Biden Plan's Free Community College ProvisionOctober 19, 2021
- 154NewsJill Biden says free community college won't be included in social spending billNBC News — February 7, 2022
- 155NewsHealth Care, Climate and Taxes: Here's What's in the Inflation Reduction ActWNBC-TV — July 28, 2022
- 156Jill Biden Teams up With NFL Great to Push VaccinationsAssociated Press — June 29, 2021
- 157NewsJill Biden has become the premier vaccine ambassador from a worried White HouseJada Yuan — December 22, 2021
- 158NewsFirst Lady Tests Positive for CoronavirusAugust 17, 2022
- 159NewsFirst on CNN: Jill Biden tests positive for rebound case of Covid-19CNN — August 24, 2022
- 160NewsFirst lady Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19Mary Kay Mallonee et al. — CNN Politics — September 5, 2023
- 161NewsJill Biden 'feeling well' after two cancerous lesions removed during hospital tripKate Bennett — CNN — January 11, 2023
- 162NewsJill Biden: It's time for men to step up for women's rightsDavid Mendez — Spectrum News — April 22, 2023
- 163NewsRemarks as Prepared for Delivery by First Lady Jill Biden at the 2021 International Women of Courage Award CeremonyWhite House — March 8, 2021
- 164First Lady Jill Biden Announces "Girls Leading Change" HonoreesWhite House — October 11, 2023
- 165NewsJill Biden announces $100 million for 'life-changing' research and development into women's healthDarlene Superville — February 24, 2024
- 166Jill Biden carries out new mission in 2nd year as first ladyDarlene Superville — Associated Press News — August 4, 2022
- 167Dr. Jill Biden on Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade: "This decision was so unjust"Nancy Cordes — CBS News — June 28, 2022
- 168Jill Biden talks frustrations at DNC fundraiser: I had to be 'the first lady of the moment'Caroline Vakil — July 16, 2022
- 169Jill Biden reportedly privately pushing for end to war in GazaApril 5, 2024
- 170'Stop It Now': Jill Biden Privately Urges an End to Conflict in GazaKatie Rogers et al. — April 3, 2024
- 172Press releaseFirst Lady Jill Biden Unveils Enhanced and Expanded White House TourWhite House — October 21, 2024
- 173NewsJill Biden has upgraded your next White House tourOctober 24, 2024
- 174NewsThe White House public tour has been upgraded so visitors can see, hear and touch moreAssociated Press — October 22, 2024
- 175NewsThanks to First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, You Can Now Tour Once-Hidden Corners of The White HouseOctober 21, 2024
- 176NewsJill Biden unveils a reimagined White House tourBetsy Klein — October 21, 2024
- 177NewsAre you supposed to be enjoying yourselves? Queen Elizabeth asks G7Michael Holden — June 12, 2021
- 178NewsJill Biden meets and tours school with the Duchess of CambridgeKate Bennett — CNN — June 13, 2021
- 179NewsKate Middleton and Dr. Jill Biden Co-Wrote an Op-Ed About Early Childhood CareKayleigh Roberts — June 13, 2021
- 180Jill Biden heads to Tokyo amid growing concern about Covid and the OlympicsKate Bennett — CNN — July 21, 2021
- 181Pope Francis meets US President Joe Biden at the VaticanHannah Brockhaus — October 29, 2021
- 182All About the Meaningful and Deeply Personal Gifts Joe and Jill Biden Gave Pope Francis at the VaticanAaron Parsley — October 29, 2021
- 184Jill Biden surrounded by her family's deep roots in Italy as she returns to the Eternal CityKate Bennett — CNN — October 29, 2021
- 186U.S. President Biden Meets Italy's Prime Minister Draghi ahead of G20October 29, 2021
- 187NewsFirst lady Dr. Jill Biden makes surprise visit to UkraineCBS News — May 8, 2022
- 188NewsFirst Lady Visits Western Ukraine, Offering Empathy and SupportMay 9, 2022
- 189NewsDr. Jill Biden: 'First ladies across the globe are committed' to helping Ukrainian refugeesNancy Cordes — CBS News — June 28, 2022
- 192NewsWhen Jill Biden went to Africa, her comment about 2024 stole all the attentionJada Yuan — March 1, 2023
- 193NewsJill Biden sees East Africa drought up closeFebruary 26, 2023
- 194Every Photo from the Coronation of King Charles IIIKate Hogan et al. — May 6, 2023
- 195NewsJill Biden: Charles' coronation was 'just amazing to see'NBC News — May 6, 2023
- 199NewsJill Biden Takes the 2024 Campaign to Paris in Another Overseas AppealJuly 25, 2023
- 200NewsJill Biden to Lead U.S. Delegation at Paris Olympics Amid Campaign ChaosJuly 23, 2024
- 202Jill Biden leads U.S. delegation to Mexico to attend inauguration of country's first female presidentMaddie Gannon — October 1, 2024
- 203Jill Biden's final foreign trip as first lady will close with her and Trump at Notre Dame cathedralDarlene Superville — December 4, 2024
- 204Press releaseFirst Lady Jill Biden in her Ancestral Hometown of Gesso, ItalyDecember 4, 2024
- 205Jill Biden Is Welcomed to a Home Away From HomeJennifer Taylor — December 5, 2024
- 206US first lady Jill Biden in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on her last solo foreign tripJon Gambrell — December 5, 2024
- 207US First Lady visits QFDecember 6, 2024
- 208Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by First Lady Jill Biden at the 2024 Doha ForumWhite House — December 7, 2024
- 209MagazineDonald Trump and Jill Biden Share Rare Chat While Attending Notre Dame Reopening in ParisNicholas Rice
- 210NewsA year and a half in, first lady Jill Biden's favorability is mixedCNN — July 19, 2022
- 211NewsJill Biden raises money for Democrats amid gaffes and popularity dropJuly 22, 2022
- 212NewsCNN Poll: Biden leaves office with his approval rating matching the lowest of his termJennifer Agiesta — January 15, 2025
- 213NewsJill Biden chided for saying Latinos as unique as 'breakfast tacos'Reuters — July 12, 2022
- 214NewsJill Biden apologizes after citing 'bodegas' and 'breakfast tacos' to praise Hispanic diversityKate Bennett et al. — CNN — July 12, 2022
- 215NewsJoe Biden's wife Jill joins him in rock-bottom poll ratingHugh Tomlinson — July 21, 2022
- 216NewsIn Tight Races, Some Calling for Biden. Not That BidenOctober 17, 2022
- 217NewsJill Biden makes a tidal shift from her thoughts on another run at the White HouseDecember 15, 2022
- 218NewsFirst Lady's Technical Foul Results in a Reminder on to Whom Go the SpoilsApril 6, 2023
- 220NewsLSU White House visit turns into slam dunk for Jill Biden, Angel ReeseMay 26, 2023
- 221Jill Biden's $695 'vote' boots are selling fast days after she wore them in publicAmanda Krause — September 17, 2020
- 222Jill Biden made a statement in a $5,690 dress from a designer with a long history in the White House, and it's already sold outSamantha Grindell — November 11, 2020
- 223First Lady Jill Biden's Team Just Says No to Talking About ClothesRosemary Feitelberg — March 4, 2021
- 224A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Dr. Jill BidenJonathan van Meter — June 29, 2021
- 225Dr. Jill Biden's Best Fashion MomentsChloe Foussianes et al. — July 19, 2022
- 226News'My scrunchie made national news': Jill Biden speaks out about pressures of being First LadyIndependent Staff — October 20, 2021
- 227Jill Biden says she doesn't understand the hype around her scrunchieDarcy Schild — February 8, 2021
- 228NewsAmid Strife, First Lady Is a Protective ForceKatie Rogers — February 10, 2024
- 229NewsJill Biden, a fixture at Hunter Biden's trial, juggles role as first lady and momArlette Saenz — CNN — June 7, 2024
- 230NewsBlow Was Dealt, but First Lady Says She's All InKatie Rogers — June 30, 2024
- 231NewsJill Biden defies Democrats over calls for husband to stand downIona Cleave — July 1, 2024
- 232News30 hours in JillvilleKara Voght et al. — July 4, 2024
- 233NewsBiden's Own Circle Is Shrinking As Anxiety in the Party ExpandsKatie Rogers et al. — July 17, 2024
- 235NewsWhy Biden finally quitEli Stokols et al. — July 21, 2024
- 236NewsJill Biden: 'Thank you for the trust you put in Joe'Lauren Sforza — July 25, 2024
- 237NewsFirst lady Jill Biden announces she is leaving her teaching post after historic tenureKinsey Crowley — December 17, 2024
- 238NewsWhat's next for Joe and Jill Biden?Ariana Baio — January 19, 2025
- 239NewsInside the Democrats' RebootCharlotte Alter — May 19, 2025
- 240NewsA Book Points to Biden's Decline and Democrats' Cowardice: 6 TakeawaysReid J. Epstein — May 13, 2025
- 241NewsJill Biden Rips 'So-Called Friends' Who Made Her the VillainEboni Boykin-Patterson — May 8, 2025
- 242NewsJill Biden lands new job following four years as first ladyEmma Colton — WAGA-TV (Fox 5 Atlanta) — May 7, 2025
- 244NewsJill Biden opens up in memoir about Joe Biden's decision to end reelection bidDarlene Superville — ABC News — March 11, 2026
- 246NewsLive updates: Obama Presidential Center opens in Chicago with Stevie Wonder, Bruce SpringsteenMS Now — June 18, 2026
- 248ThesisStudent Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' NeedsJill Jacobs-Biden — University of Delaware — Fall 2006
- 249BookDon't Forget, God Bless Our TroopsJill Biden — Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books — 2012
- 250BookWhere the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering MyselfJill Biden — Flatiron Books — 2019
- 251BookJoey: The Story of Joe BidenJill Biden — Simon & Schuster — 2020
- 252BookWillow the White House CatJill Biden et al. — Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books — 2024
- 253BookView from the East Wing: A MemoirJill Biden — Gallery Books — 2026