Dr. Jill Biden

Jill Biden, former First Lady of the United States, is the New York Times bestselling author of Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself and her children’s books Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops ; Joey: The Story of Joe Biden ; and Willow the White House Cat . Her White House memoir, View from the East Wing , released June 2, 2026, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. She served as Second Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. As First Lady, she advocated for military families, the Biden Cancer Moonshot, community colleges, and women’s health research—and maintained a full-time career teaching English as a community college professor. She chairs the Milken Institute’s Women’s Health Network. A mother and grandmother—and now great-grandmother—she lives with her husband, former President Joe Biden, in Wilmington, Delaware, with their cat, Willow.