Called Lauren Kennedy by some outlets, Lauren Birchfield Kennedy is known to be the wife of politician and US Representative Joe Kennedy. Although she had her own career as a health policy lawyer, she was more involved in her husband’s activities, which made him widely known.

The couple have been married and married since 2012 when they got married. Since Joe began his political career, Lauren has always been by his side, offering him overwhelming support.

Who is Lauren Birchfield Kennedy?

As already noted, Lauren is the wife of Americanlawyer and politician Joe Kennedy. She was born Lauren Anne Birchfield in 1984, in California, United States. It is also where she was raised by her parents Marta and the Reverend Jim Birchfield alongside a younger sister Emily.

She was raised in a Christian family. Her father served as a pastor at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. On the other hand, his mother worked at Arthur Anderson as a Chartered Accountant before later leaving to start and run her own consulting firm. Currently, her parents live in Houston, Texas, where her father is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church.

Regarding her education, she went to the University of California, Los Angeles after graduating from high school. There she was a finalist in Rhodes and in 2006 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She also went to England where she studied at Oxford University and then in 2009 she graduated alongside her husband from Harvard Law School.

On the career side, Lauren Birchfield Kennedy has a very solid CV. She worked in Washington, DC as Director of Health Policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families. She has also worked at Boston Medical Center, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, holding leadership positions.

Lauren also founded the child care organization Neighborhood Villages which advocates for policies that would provide affordable, high quality child care for children of all families in American communities.

Her relationship with Joe Kennedy

The love story between Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and Joe Kennedy is one that is quite interesting. It started when the two were at Harvard Law School. To be precise, it was in a class taught by Senator Elizabeth Warren that the man who would later become a congressman first met his wife.

According to the senator who remembered how it started, Lauren was seated in the back row to her right, Kennedy was in the front row to her left.

The two soon started dating and one thing leading to the other, they got married in 2002. Prior to that, they got engaged when Kennedy was running for congressional headquarters. With their marriage, they became one of five couples to marry from the same class at Harvard Law School.

Their union was blessed with two children; a son and a daughter.

Here are the facts about Joe Kennedy’s wife

  • 1. About her husband

It was as Joseph Patrick Kennedy III that Joe was born on October 4, 1980, as a twin. From the Kennedy family, his father Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy II was a businessman and politician. He was still young when the marriage between his parents ended in 1991 and so the years that followed were spent between Brighton and Cambridge.

Joe studied Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Before that, he went to Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge where he graduated. He would later join the Peace Corps before enrolling at Harvard Law School.

  • 2. She supported her husband

When Joe Kennedy decided to give Massachusetts’ 4th congressional district a shot in 2012 under the Democratic Party, one person who stood by his side was Lauren Anne Birchfield whom he later married. She always stood by his side as he pursued his political career.

3. Net worth

Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and her husband, JoeKennedy, are great things to do. Some sources put their net worth at $20 million, while others even put it at $60 million. It was thanks to this that Joe was named one of the richest members of Congress. Their fortune comes mainly from Trust as well as Joe’s inheritance.