Hallie Olivere Biden | |
Birth Date: | 6 July 1973 |
Birth Place: | Greenville, Delaware, U.S. |
Education: | Tatnall School |
Occupation: | school counselor, non-profit executive |
Party: | Democratic |
Partner: | Hunter Biden (2016–2019) |
Children: | 2 |
Family: | Biden (by marriage) |
Hallie K. Biden (née Olivere; born July 6, 1973) is an American school counselor, non-profit executive, and member of the Biden family. She worked as a school counselor at the Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware, and at Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware. In 2002, she married Beau Biden, a son of U.S. President Joe Biden and Neilia Hunter Biden. They lived in Wilmington while her husband served as the Attorney General of Delaware. After her husband's death from glioblastoma in 2015, Biden became the chairwoman of the board of directors for the Beau Biden Foundation For the Protection of Children. She received media attention and scrutiny for her romantic relationship with Beau's brother Hunter Biden from 2016 to 2019.
Biden was born on July 6, 1973, in Greenville, Delaware, to Louis Ronald "Ron" Olivere and Joan Berger.[1] [2] [3] Her mother, who was a childhood friend of Joe Biden,[4] owned a drycleaning business.[5] She is of Jewish background.[2] [6] She was educated at the Tatnall School, a private college preparatory school near Wilmington, Delaware.[7]
Biden worked as an admissions counselor at her alma mater, the Tatnall School, and as a guidance counselor at Archmere Academy.[7] She serves as the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the Beau Biden Foundation For the Protection of Children.[8]
In 1998, she began dating her childhood friend Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III, who worked as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.[5] [9] The two became engaged during a family Thanksgiving celebration in Nantucket.[10] She married Beau Biden in 2002.[2] They had two children: daughter Natalie Naomi Biden (b. 2004), and son Robert Hunter Biden II (b. 2006).[11] [12] [13] The family lived in Wilmington, Delaware, while her husband served as the Attorney General of Delaware.[14]
Her husband died from brain cancer in 2015.[15] Biden maintained a close relationship with other members of the Biden family after her husband's death, encouraging her father-in-law to run in the 2016 presidential election,[16] consulting him before the launch of his 2020 presidential campaign and attending mass with the family at St. Joseph on the Brandywine.[17] [18]
In 2016, she began a relationship with her brother-in-law, Hunter Biden, who was in the process of going through a separation from his wife, Kathleen Buhle.[2] [19] [20] She and Hunter Biden moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her children.[21] They ended their relationship in 2019.[22] In March 2019, The Key School filed a lawsuit against Biden, stating that she failed to pay $55,740 in tuition for her two children for the 2018–19 school year, seventh and eighth grade students.[21] The suit was settled in October 2019. In 2024 she married John Hopkins Anning.[23]