17 Facts About Heidi Cruz

Heidi Cruz has been a managing director at Goldman Sachs since 2012.

Heidi Cruz was an economic policy adviser to George W Bush's 2000 presidential campaign and subsequently held various positions in the Bush administration, including as an advisor to the Treasury Department and National Security Council.

Heidi Cruz Suzanne Nelson was born on August 7,1972, in San Luis Obispo, California, to Suzanne Jane, a dental hygienist, and Peter Christian Nelson, a dentist.

Heidi Cruz completed her secondary education in 1990, at Monterey Bay Academy, an Adventist boarding school about 150 miles north in La Selva Beach, California.

Heidi Cruz's second graduate degree was an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2000.

Subsequent to getting married in 2001, Heidi Cruz moved from Washington, DC, to Texas in 2004, and experienced a period of depression as a result of the transition.

Heidi Cruz converted to the Southern Baptist denomination, though she still maintains a vegetarian diet in adherence with her Adventist upbringing.

Heidi Cruz worked as director of the Latin America desk at the Department of Treasury in 2002.

Heidi Cruz taught herself how to speak Spanish between jobs.

In 2003, Heidi Cruz reported directly to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

Heidi Cruz took a leave of absence without pay to participate in her husband's 2016 presidential campaign.

Heidi Cruz's call list included donor names provided to her by a super PAC.

Heidi Cruz stumped for her husband in Iowa ahead of the 2016 Republican caucuses, appearing in the state multiple times.

Heidi Cruz's campaigning in Texas was viewed by commentators as essential to her husband's winning of his home state on Super Tuesday.

At the time of her campaigning in Texas, Ted Heidi Cruz was expected to win the state, the move being seen as the Heidi Cruz campaign not wanting to take any chances.

Heidi Cruz emphasized the state as both her and her husband's home state.

Heidi Cruz then substituted for her husband in Fayetteville, North Carolina, speaking at Fayetteville Technical Community College in promotion of him, and jointly appeared with her husband in Wisconsin.