First Lady Biden Returns To In-Person Teaching At NOVA Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA, VA — With many students and teachers back to in-person instruction this school year, the First Lady is among them.

First Lady Jill Biden, a writing professor at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), returned to in-person teaching at the Alexandria campus during the week of Labor Day, the Washington Post reported. Biden taught virtually during the last semester.

According to the Associated Press, Biden is the only First Lady to have worked a full-time job while living at the White House. She is teaching College Composition I during the fall semester. The class is hybrid with at least 50 percent taught in person.

Biden first started teaching at NOVA in 2009, the year her husband became vice president under President Barack Obama. She first began her teaching career as an English teacher in 1976 at St. Mark’s High School in Wilmington, Delaware, according to her White House biography. She became a reading specialist at Claymont High School before earning a master's degree and later taught English at Rockford Center psychiatric hospital and in 1993 worked at Delaware Technical Community College. Two years before joining NOVA, she received a Doctor of Education from the University of Delaware.

Biden taught eight years during the Obama administration and resumed teaching there when her husband became president. As reported by the Post, her classes during her time as Second Lady would feature her Secret Service detail dressed as students with their equipment in backpacks.