Jennifer Sullivan Sanford was born on September 11,1962 and is the former First Lady of South Carolina and a former investment banker.
17 Facts About Jenny Sanford
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Jenny Sanford was born and raised in Winnetka, Illinois, an upscale suburb of Chicago, the daughter of Susan Reynolds and John William Sullivan.
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Jenny Sanford is the second of five children born to an Irish Catholic family.
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Jenny Sanford is the niece of Anne Reynolds Skakel, who was the wife of Rushton Skakel, who in turn is the brother of Ethel Kennedy.
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Jenny Sanford attended Woodlands Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Jenny Sanford has long been rumored as a potential candidate for office in her own right.
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In December 2013, Jenny Sanford was appointed to the Charleston County Aviation Authority Board.
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In March 2015, Jenny Sanford expressed interest in becoming Director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
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Jenny Sanford met her future husband, Mark Jenny Sanford, at a beach party in the Hamptons on Long Island.
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Jenny Sanford acted as her husband's advisor while he was in Congress.
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Jenny Sanford serves on the boards of several non-profits, including the Hollings Cancer Center, the Drayton Hall historical property in Charleston, the Coastal Community Foundation and the Children's Hospital Advisory Fund.
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Jenny Sanford learned of her husband's infidelity in January 2009, before the scandal broke.
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Jenny Sanford published a memoir, Staying True, which was released on February 5,2010, which details her experience of her husband's affair and the effect it had on her own life.
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On February 3,2013, Jenny Sanford found Mark Jenny Sanford leaving her Sullivan's Island house.
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Jenny Sanford filed a trespassing complaint against him the next day, alleging that Mark Sanford had repeatedly violated the agreement despite Jenny Sanford filing a "no trespass" letter with the Sullivan's Island Police Department.
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Jenny Sanford claimed to have tried to contact Jenny beforehand, but was unable to do so.
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Jenny Sanford married Andy McKay, an investment banker from Louisville, Kentucky, in 2018.