First Lady Jill Biden to visit Honolulu next weekend
ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. First Lady Jill Biden smiles in Newlyn, Cornwall, England, in June. The White House said today that First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Honolulu July 24 and 25, with a stop in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday.
The White House said today that First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Honolulu July 24 and 25, with a stop in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday.
“Additional details to follow,” the White House said in a release.
The New York Times, citing the White House, reported that Jill Biden would travel to Japan for the opening ceremony of the Olympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo on July 23.
The daughter of a Navy signalman, Jill Biden, who received a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware in January of 2007, has been a longtime advocate for military families, a White House biography states.
“During her first White House tenure, Dr. Biden traveled to nearly 40 countries, visiting military bases, hospitals, and refugee camps, and advocating for education and economic empowerment for women and girls,” the White House said of the 2009 to 2017 time frame when Joe Biden was vice president.
The New York Times said the Japan trip would be Jill Biden’s first solo trip abroad, as part of a travel schedule that “currently outpaces her husband’s. Dr. Biden has been a frequent traveler in service of promoting the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine efforts domestically.”
“As First Lady, Dr. Biden continues her work for education, military families, and fighting cancer. She is a professor of writing at Northern Virginia Community College,” according to the White House.
