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Naomi King Biden Neal (born December 21, 1993) is an American lawyer. Biden is the eldest daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle as well as a granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden.[1] She grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School and works as an associate at the law firm Arnold & Porter.
A member of the First family of the United States, she has lived in the White House with her grandfather and step-grandmother since August 2021. Biden accompanied them on official visits to China, Brazil, Turkey, New Zealand, and Trinidad and Tobago while they were serving as Vice President and Second Lady.
In November 2022, she became the first granddaughter of a president to marry at the White House. According to the White House Historical Association, Biden's wedding was the first to take place on the South Lawn.
Biden was born on December 21, 1993,[2][3] to Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle.[4][5] She has two younger sisters, Finnegan and Roberta ("Maisy"), a half-brother named Beau from her father's second marriage to South African filmmaker Melissa Cohen, and one half-sister from her father's relationship with Lunden Alexis Roberts.[6] The eldest grandchild of U.S. President Joe Biden, she was named after his daughter, Naomi Christina Biden, who at age 1 was killed, along with his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden,[1][7] in a 1972 car crash.[4][1] Her grandfather married Jill Tracy Jacobs in 1977.[8]
Naomi King Biden grew up in Washington, D.C.[1] She attended Sidwell Friends School, a private Quaker school in Washington, D.C.[9][10] She majored in international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a classmate and friend of First Daughter Tiffany Trump[11][12] and graduated in 2016. She later earned her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 2020.[1]
A member of the First family of the United States, she has lived in the White House with her grandfather and step-grandmother since August 2021. Biden accompanied them on official visits to China, Brazil, Turkey, New Zealand, and Trinidad and Tobago while they were serving as Vice President and Second Lady.
In November 2022, she became the first granddaughter of a president to marry at the White House. According to the White House Historical Association, Biden's wedding was the first to take place on the South Lawn.
Biden was born on December 21, 1993,[2][3] to Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle.[4][5] She has two younger sisters, Finnegan and Roberta ("Maisy"), a half-brother named Beau from her father's second marriage to South African filmmaker Melissa Cohen, and one half-sister from her father's relationship with Lunden Alexis Roberts.[6] The eldest grandchild of U.S. President Joe Biden, she was named after his daughter, Naomi Christina Biden, who at age 1 was killed, along with his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden,[1][7] in a 1972 car crash.[4][1] Her grandfather married Jill Tracy Jacobs in 1977.[8]
Naomi King Biden grew up in Washington, D.C.[1] She attended Sidwell Friends School, a private Quaker school in Washington, D.C.[9][10] She majored in international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a classmate and friend of First Daughter Tiffany Trump[11][12] and graduated in 2016. She later earned her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 2020.[1]