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The Biden-Harris Administration
Learn More about Dr. Jill Giacoppa Biden
Dr. Jill Biden is the first Italian American to become First Lady of the United States. An educator, author, mother, and grandmother, she is also the first spouse of a president to maintain her own career outside the White House.
As First Lady she supports military families, advocates for educational opportunities, and works to seek an end to cancer while serving as a messenger of the President’s priorities.
A partner and supporter of her husband and family for 44 plus years of marriage, she is the great-granddaughter of Italian immigrants. Jill Biden embraces and continues in her own family the Italian American experiences that helped to shape her values and that inspired her to become a teacher and an advocate for her community.
Watch this interview with the first Italian American First Lady of the United State
Are you and Jill’s family
from the same town in Italy?
At right is a photo of the secluded village that claims it was the birthplace of Jill Biden’s great grandfather. Can you recognize it?
Want to cook like Jill?
Try her recipe for Chicken Parmigiana.
Jill inherited her love of cooking from her paternal grandmother, who prepared traditional Italian dishes for Sunday dinners. Here she shares one of her favorite recipes.
Italian Americans in the Biden-Harris Administration
Linda Swartz Taglialatela
Ambassador, Barbados,
Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Lucia, Antigua
and Barbuda, Dominica,
Grenada, and Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines
Eric Garcetti
Ambassador-Designate
India
(not yet confirmed
by the Senate)
Claire A. Pierangelo
Ambassador
Madagascar and
Comoros
Gina Raimondo
Secretary,
Department of
Commerce
Steve Ricchetti
Counselor to the President,
Executive Office of the
President
Annie Tomasini
Director of Oval Office
Operations, Executive Office
of the President
Mitch Landrieu
Coordinator in the White House for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Executive Office of the President
John Podesta
Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation,
Executive Office of the
President
Lisa Monaco
Deputy Attorney General,
Department of Justice
Nani Coloretti
Deputy Director,
Office of Management and
Budget, Executive Office of
the President
Sarah Bianchi
Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative,
Executive Office of the
President
Annie Caputo
Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Jennifer Abruzzo
General Counsel,
National Labor Relations
Board
Nicole Angarella
Inspector General-Designate, U.S. Agency
for International
Development
Angela Botticella
Chief of Staff, Office of
the Deputy Secretary,
Department of Health and
Human Services
Rebecca Brocato
Chief of Staff, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Frank Calvelli
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and
Integration, Department of
Defense
Joseph V. Cuffari
Inspector General, Department of
Homeland Security
Kurt DelBene
Assistant Secretary for
Information and Technology,
Department of Veterans
Affairs
Richard DiZinno
Member, Privacy and Civil Liberties Board
Christopher Fonzone
General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Glenna Gallo
Assistant Secretary-
Designate for Special
Education and Rehabilitative
Services, Department of
Education
(not yet confirmed
by the Senate)
Laurie E. Locascio
Director of NIST and Undersecretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce
Daniel B. Maffei
Member-Designate, Federal Maritime Commission
(not yet confirmed
by the Senate)
Jackie Maffucci
Deputy Director of Congressional, Legislative, and Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of Personnel Management
Gayle Conelly Manchin
Federal co-Chair,
Appalachian Regional
Commission
Clare Martorana
Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President
Rachel Palermo
Deputy Communications Director to the Vice President, Office of the Vice President
Leon Panetta
Member, Homeland Security
Advisory Council
Melissa Piccoli
Advisor for Intergovernmental Affairs, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Judith Delzoppo Pryor
First President and Vice-Chairman,
Export-Import Bank
Daniel Ricchetti
Senior Advisor, Office of
the Under Secretary of
State for Arms Control
and International Security,
Department of State
J.J. Ricchetti
Special Assistant, Office
of Legislative Affairs,
Department of Treasury
Shannon Ricchetti
Deputy Associate Director,
Office of the White House
Social Secretary, Executive
Office of the President
Carrie Ricci
General Counsel to the Navy,
Department of Defense
Lauren Speranza
Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Giancarlo Stefanoni
Protocol Officer, Department of State
Richard Trumka Jr.
Commissioner, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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