1. Catharine Elizabeth Edwards was born on March 4,1982 and is an American attorney.
14 Facts About Cate Edwards
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Cate Edwards attended Aldert Root Elementary School, Daniels Middle School, and Needham B Broughton High School, where she graduated at the top of her class.
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Cate Edwards's siblings are: Wade, Emma Claire was born on 1998), Jack was born on 2000) and half sibling Quinn (2008 and her fathers daughter with Rielle Hunter.
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Cate Edwards attended Princeton University, majoring in political economics, and graduating with honors.
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Cate Edwards is a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, and was an intern for the Council on Foreign Relations.
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In 2004, Cate Edwards accompanied her father on the campaign trail and campaigned on his behalf while he pursued the Democratic presidential nomination, a venture that ultimately proved to be unsuccessful.
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Cate Edwards was an active campaigner during her father's 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Cate Edwards then moved to Washington, DC, and served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Leonie M Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia before joining a civil rights law firm in Washington, DC Cate Edwards temporarily left the practice of law in May 2011, after the death of her mother, Elizabeth, to start a foundation in her mother's honor.
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Cate Edwards returned to the practice of law in mid-2012 and was a partner at Edwards Kirby, the law firm of her father and attorneys David Kirby and William Bystrynski before she founded her own law firm called Edwards Beightol with fellow litigator Kristen Beightol in 2021.
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Early in the 2004 presidential campaign, Cate Edwards became the first family member of the Democratic candidates to state that she was in favor of legalizing gay marriage.
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Cate Edwards married her longtime boyfriend, cardiothoracic surgeon Trevor Upham, in October 2011.
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Cate Edwards stood by her father, John Edwards, as he faced felony charges of conspiracy, false statements, and campaign law violations for the cover-up of $925,000 in illicit campaign contributions.
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John Cate Edwards was acquitted on one federal count on May 31,2012, while a jury deadlocked on five other counts.
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Cate Edwards was not retried on any of the outstanding charges and resumed his law practice.