Jane Sanders
| Jane O'Meara Sanders | |
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| 4th President of Burlington College | |
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In office March 2004 – September 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Mary Clancy |
| Succeeded by | Christine Plunkett |
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President of Goddard College Acting |
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In office 1996–1997 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Greene |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Mossberg |
| First Lady of Burlington | |
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In role 1988–1989 |
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| Mayor | Bernie Sanders |
| Preceded by | Mary Paquette |
| Succeeded by | Betsy Ferries |
| Personal details | |
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Mary Jane O'Meara January 3, 1950 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Dave Driscoll (Divorced) Bernie Sanders (m. 1988) |
| Alma mater |
Goddard College Union Institute and University |
Mary Jane O'Meara Sanders (born January 3, 1950) is an American social worker, college administrator and political staffer. Sanders was Provost and interim President of Goddard College (1996–97) and president of Burlington College (2004–11). In June 2017, she started the think tank The Sanders Institute. She has been married to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders since 1988.
Sanders was born Mary Jane O'Meara on January 3, 1950, and grew up in New York City's borough of Brooklyn, as one of 5 children of Bernadette Joan (Sheridan) and Benedict P. O'Meara. She was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools before attending the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Sanders dropped out of Tennessee and moved back to Brooklyn with her first husband, David Driscoll; they then moved to Virginia. In 1975, they moved to Vermont when Driscoll's employer, IBM, transferred him. Driscoll had requested her husband seek a transfer since she did not like Manassas, Virginia. They divorced shortly after their arrival in Vermont and the birth of her son Dave. Sanders has three children (Heather, Carina, and Dave) from her marriage with Driscoll.
Sanders finished her college degree at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, with a bachelor's in social work. She met Bernie Sanders in 1981, ten days before his first campaign victory as Mayor of Burlington, and again at his victory party; they wed in 1988.
In 1996, she earned a doctorate in leadership studies in politics and education from Union Institute & University headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Early in her career, Sanders worked in the Juvenile Division of the Burlington Police Department, and then as a community organizer with the King Street Area Youth Center, and for VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), a job that helped her pay off her student loans.
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