After 15 years of teaching English at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), First Lady Jill Biden announced her retirement from her teaching post.
Jill Biden announced on Monday that she’d finished her final class at the Alexandria school the week before, NBC reported. Jill Biden started teaching at NOVA in 2009 after her husband Joe Biden became vice president. Jill Biden started teaching English in 1976.
Jill Biden taught at the NOVA campus in Alexandria’s West End, near Mark Center.
According to a statement from the White House:
Being your First Lady has been the honor of my life. But being your colleague has been the work of my life.
Last Thursday, I taught my last class of the semester, and my final class ever at Northern Virginia Community College.
I will always love this profession, which is why I continued to teach full-time while serving as your First Lady.
And I couldn’t have done it without the love and support of fellow educators.
At every turn, you’ve stood by my side, lifted my spirits, and helped me remember that we’re in this together.
And I will always be grateful to those who lead us forward.
The announcement comes not long before President Joe Biden is set to be replaced by President Donald Trump (and a notable Alexandria resident moves to D.C.).
