Jill teaches writing at Northern Virginia Community College, where she taught full-time as second lady under the Obama administration.
Between 2008 and 2016 when her husband was Obama’s deputy, Jill taught at the Virginia Community College.
“Teaching isn’t just what I do. It’s who I am,” she said in her statement recorded by AP.
She started her career teaching English at St. Mark’s High School in Wilmington and earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership from the University of Delaware.
In a statement by Tammy Vigil, a Boston University communications professor who wrote a book about first ladies, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, said: A working first lady is a “big deal”.
Furthermore, he elaborated that the US First Ladies did not have a permanent job outside the White House but only raised kids and assumed a job of hostess, with an exception of Eleanor Roosevelt who went on political trips for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but her work was limited due to polio.