Jane Sanders

November 18, 2025 - In 1975, they moved to Vermont when Driscoll's employer, IBM, transferred him. The couple divorced in 1980. She has three children (Heather Titus, Carina Driscoll, and David Driscoll) from her marriage with Driscoll, who were later adopted by Sanders. O'Meara finished her college degree at ...

4 days ago - His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders, a Polish-Jewish immigrant, was born in Słopnice, a town in Austrian Galicia that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in Poland. Elias Sanders immigrated to the United States in 1921 and became a paint salesman. Bernie's mother, Dorothy Sanders (née Glassberg), was born in New York City.

May 19, 2024 - The former couple welcomed three children: two daughters, Heather and Carina, and a son, David. According to The Cut, Sanders “formally adopted” Jane's kids when her first husband died of lung cancer. Bernie and Jane also fostered 13 children.

November 18, 2020 - If you've seen Vermont senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail, the first person he always introduces first is his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders. After meeting in the early '80s, the couple married in 1988 in the most Bernie way — at a public park and filmed for public access television. The outspoken democratic socialist's proposal was also very on-brand. It happened over ice cream.

February 6, 2023 - Eli and Dorothy Sanders’ values and beliefs left a lasting impression on their sons, who decided to become public servants and, eventually, elected officials. Bernie credits Larry, president of the Young Democrats Club at Brooklyn College, with his introduction to political ideas. Larry, having moved to the UK as his wife was a British citizen, was a social worker for many years. First active in the Labor Party, he joined the Green Party in 2001, serving on the Oxfordshire County Council from 2005 to 2013 and then as a Health Spokesperson for the Party.

March 31, 2025 - Photo: @berniesanders/Instagram · He may be five years older than Donald Trump, but Sanders’ energy for a fight in the political arena remains undimmed. One woman who’s seen all his ups and downs over the years is Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders.

December 22, 2015 - Bernie Sanders has made a name for himself on the campaign trail, and his potential future first lady and wife of almost 30 years, Jane O'Meara Sanders, is one of his closest political advisers. They've been a team for longer than many of his…

Jane Sanders married Bernie Sanders in 1988. When Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, Jane Sanders began serving as a policy advisor in his congressional office. Later, she became Bernie Sanders' chief of staff. She left Bernie Sanders' office in 1996 to ...

Bernie Sanders and Jane Driscoll are married at North Beach in Burlington and then shortly after go with a delegation of other Burlingtonians to Yaroslavl in Russia. This program includes the return at the airport as well as a press conference ...

May 1, 2015 - Bernie Sanders (born September 8, 1941, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American politician who was first elected to represent Vermont in the U.S. Senate in 2006 and took office the following year. Previously he served (1981–89) as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and as a member of the U.S.

March 4, 2020 - Bernie Sanders and Jane O’Meara Sanders in 1992. They soon began dating, and wed in 1988. While Jane and Bernie don’t have children together, they have a blended family and consider each other’s kids their own: Heather Titus, Carina Driscoll, and Dave Driscoll from Jane’s first marriage, and Levi Sanders from Bernie’s.

Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont, is considered an independent non-partisan, meaning he is not affiliated with a political party. Although he lost his bid for President of the U.S. in 2016 as a Democrat, he inspired the creation of Our Revolution, a nonprofit established to keep moving forward his grassroots campaign toward progressive social change. His wife, Dr.

October 25, 2022 - Most Americans know Jane Sanders, ... not a lot of people know that Sanders was married before to a woman named Deborah Shiling, now Deborah Messing....

Bernie lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane. He has four children and seven grandchildren. Bernie is counting on all of us to continue fighting for our progressive agenda. There is only one way we will transform this country – and that is together. Add your name to tell Bernie you're in. By providing my phone number, I consent to receive periodic text message alerts from Bernie Sanders and his affiliated campaigns, including Friends of Bernie Sanders.

July 22, 2017 - Five years after Jane Sanders, wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders, left as president — after significant board turnover and three college presidents — Burlington College, and her vision, collapsed under "the crushing weight of debt."

March 10, 2020 - Jane was just one of several of Bernie’s government appointees working as a volunteer, some of whom had been initially rejected for full-time compensation by the city council, which was dominated 11-2 by a bloc of aldermen who didn’t approve of Sanders. But only Jane had the unique characteristic of being Bernie’s partner. For the first time, in her words, she “became a weapon” in a highly charged partisan environment that is hard to imagine in a small, bucolic city of 38,000 people.

August 22, 2024 - Jane and Bernie Sanders’ relationship began in 1981 when she attended one of his debates in Burlington. Not long after, he invited her to dance, marking the start of their relationship. Although the two were together for several years, they eventually took a break because Jane wanted to marry, but Bernie wasn’t ready at the time.

July 26, 2016 - Sanders’ instruction was met with a collective loud “No!” followed by boos before the room erupted in “We Want Bernie!” chants. After the boos subsided, the senator’s wife, Jane Sanders, came on stage and made a curious statement that was accidentally caught on the microphone.

November 8, 2023 - As Bernie climbed, the scrutiny of her became more intense. When Sanders successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2005, his opponent accused him of lining his family’s pockets with the $30,000 Jane had received from 2002 to 2004 for campaign work and the $65,000 over four years to Carina, who worked with Jane’s consulting company for a bit after graduating from the University of Montana. (House Majority Leader Tom DeLay had paid his wife and daughter $500,000 during the same time period.)