With various media outlets saying that Joe Biden has won this presidential election, his wife Jill is saying that she will continue teaching as First Lady.
Jill, who is a community college teacher, said this when asked by CBS Sunday Morning if she would continue teaching if she becomes First Lady.
“I hope so. I would love to,” Jill said. “If we get to the White House, I’m going to continue to teach. It’s important, and I want people to value teachers and know their contributions and lift up their profession.”
Jill, who has a doctorate in education, has taught for over 36 years, continuing to do so even when her husband was vice president.
“I want to do what I love,” she told People Magazine back in 2009 after beginning her new job as an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College.
“I knew if I let any time-lapse, I would be sucked into Joe’s life. I can have my own job, my own life, but also work on issues,” Jill added at the time. “I can have it all, really.”
Biden appeared in this same CBS profile to praise his wife of 43 years.
“I adore her. I’m gonna sound so stupid, I was saying the other day, when she comes down the steps and I look at her my heart still skips a beat,” he said.
“What Jill is best at helping me do is figure out who the people around me would be most compatible with me,” Biden added. “She knows me better than I know me.”
Jill and her husband are the authors of the children’s book “Joey: The Story of Joe Biden,” which documents the former vice president’s childhood
“He had to overcome a lot of hardship, he was bullied as a child, and so he knows what it feels for other kids to be bullied,” Jill said of her husband. “He stood up to the bullies and he stood up to the bullies who bullied other kids, so I think that he’s resilient. I want people to know that he’s empathetic because of what he’s been through in life, and that he’s a leader, of course.”
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