Editing Jill Biden (section)

== Academic Career and Early Marriage ==
Biden began her higher education at Brandywine Junior College studying fashion merchandising but found it unsatisfying. In 1970, she married Bill Stevenson and enrolled at the University of Delaware. The marriage ended in divorce in 1975, during which time she took a year off from college and did some modeling work in Wilmington.

She met Joe Biden in March 1975 on a blind date arranged by his brother Frank. Despite their nine-year age difference, they married on June 17, 1977, at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City. She became stepmother to his sons Beau and Hunter, and in 1981, they welcomed their daughter Ashley.