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Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy US State Dept photo.jpg
29th United States Ambassador to Japan
In office
November 19, 2013 – January 18, 2017
President Barack Obama
Deputy Jason Hyland
Preceded by John Roos
Succeeded by Jason Hyland (Acting)
Personal details
Born Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
(1957-11-27) November 27, 1957 (age 59)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Edwin Schlossberg (m. 1986)
Relations See Kennedy family
Children 3, including Rose and Jack
Parents John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Education Harvard University (BA)
Columbia University (JD)

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, attorney, and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. She is a prominent member of the Kennedy family and the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. She is a niece of Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy and older sister to the late John F. Kennedy Jr.

Caroline Kennedy was just short of her sixth birthday when her father was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The following year, Caroline, her mother, and brother settled on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she attended school. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She went on to receive a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Most of Kennedy's professional life has spanned law and politics, as well as education reform and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family's legacy and co-authored two books on civil liberties with Ellen Alderman.

In the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy and her uncle Ted endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for president early in the primary race; she later stumped for him in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. After Obama's selection of then-Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Kennedy expressed interest in being appointed to Clinton's vacant Senate seat from New York, but she later withdrew from consideration, citing "personal reasons." Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand ultimately replaced Clinton as the junior New York Senator. In 2013, President Obama appointed her as ambassador to Japan.


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