1. Douglas Craig Emhoff was born on October 13,1964 and is an American lawyer who served as the second gentleman of the United States from 2021 to 2025.
29 Facts About Doug Emhoff
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Doug Emhoff was the first Jewish spouse of a US vice president.
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Doug Emhoff was managing director of Venable's West Coast offices and later became a partner at DLA Piper.
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Doug Emhoff is a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Douglas Craig Emhoff was born on October 13,1964, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the son of Jewish parents, Michael and Barbara Emhoff.
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Doug Emhoff's ancestors moved to the United States from Gorlice, in Austrian Galicia, about 1899 due to persecution.
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Doug Emhoff's family were congregants of Temple Shalom, a Reform synagogue in Aberdeen Township, and Emhoff had his bar mitzvah there in 1977.
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The next summer, in 1978, Doug Emhoff attended Camp Cedar Lake in Milford, Pennsylvania, where he was voted "most athletic" of his division at age 13.
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Doug Emhoff earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies from California State University, Northridge, in 1987 and a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law in 1990.
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Doug Emhoff is a litigator focused on media, entertainment, and intellectual property.
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Doug Emhoff was admitted to the California State Bar in 1990 and began his career at Pillsbury Winthrop's litigation group.
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Doug Emhoff opened his own firm with Ben Whitwell in 2000, which was acquired by Venable LLP in 2006.
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Doug Emhoff was one of the lawyers representing Taco Bell's former advertising agency TBWA in a chihuahua-centric case.
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Doug Emhoff joined DLA Piper as a partner in 2017, working at its Washington, DC, and California offices.
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In December 2020, Georgetown University Law Center announced that Doug Emhoff would join the school's faculty as a distinguished visitor and fellow of the school's Institute for Technology Law and Policy.
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When Harris assumed office, Doug Emhoff became the first second gentleman of the United States.
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Doug Emhoff is the first Jewish spouse of a US vice president.
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Doug Emhoff was popularly labeled a "wife guy", a slang term referring to a man whose fame is owed to his wife, or one who is exceptionally supportive of his wife.
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In 2020, Doug Emhoff himself called himself a wife guy on Twitter.
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In March 2021, while second gentleman, Doug Emhoff began teaching a course called "Entertainment Law Disputes" at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Doug Emhoff has led the US delegations to several diplomatic events, including the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and the inaugurations of South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol and Philippine president Bongbong Marcos.
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Doug Emhoff was part of the American legation to the 2024 Summer Olympics, attending several competitions and the closing ceremony.
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In June 2023, Doug Emhoff engaged with the Congressional Dads Caucus in a roundtable on Capitol Hill, discussing the Biden administration's family support programs.
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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2023, Doug Emhoff visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland alongside Holocaust survivors.
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Doug Emhoff's visit intended to pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust and to honor survivors.
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Doug Emhoff was part of the White House team that launched the US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, the country's first combatting antisemitism strategy, on May 25,2023.
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Doug Emhoff stated that conflations of Jewish identity with the actions of the Israeli government had led to increased hostility and threats against Jewish people.
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Doug Emhoff was married to film producer Kerstin Mackin from 1992 to 2008.
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In 2013, Doug Emhoff was set up on a blind date with Kamala Harris, who was attorney general of California at the time.