Jill Biden
Biden's husband was elected president and will take office on January 20, 2021. She will become the first spouse since Barbara Bush to hold the positions of both Second Lady and First Lady and will become the first ever Italian American first lady. She has reiterated that she plans to continue teaching, which would make her the first wife of a sitting US president to hold a paying job outside the White House. In mid-November 2020, it was announced that her chief of staff as first lady would be attorney and diplomat Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon and that her senior advisor in the role would be campaign staffer Anthony Bernal. In December 2020, an op-ed piece by writer Joseph Epstein in the Wall Street Journal, which urged the incoming First Lady to drop the "Dr." from her preferred form of address because she is not a medical doctor, was met with a widespread backlash especially among professional women.
