Lauren Anne Birchfield is a skilled health policy lawyer who works for a non-profit dedicated to human rights and health policy. She works for the National Partnership for Women & Families as the director of health policy. She formerly worked for Boston Medical Center as a senior health policy and government affairs adviser. She is the devoted wife of Democratic Party politician Joe Kennedy III and the mother of two children, in addition to being a successful lawyer.

Lauren Anne Birchfield Age & Early Life

Lauren Anne Birchfield was born in Southern California on September 21, 1984, to Reverend Dr. James Birchfield and Marta Birchfield. Her father is the pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, and her mother is a former Arthur Anderson certified public accountant who now has her own firm. Houston, Texas is where her parents live.

Emily Birchfield is her younger sister, and she lives in San Francisco, California.

Birchfield earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. She also attended Oxford University in England and Harvard Law School, where she graduated in 2009.

She will be 37 years old in 2021.

Professional Career Of Lauren Anne Birchfield

Birchfield has worked as a health policy lawyer. She works for the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, D.C. as the director of health policy. According to sources, she oversaw the National Partnership’s health policy portfolio, as well as the strategy and plan for significant policy initiatives such as the Affordable Care Act’s implementation.

She formerly worked for Boston Medical Center as a senior health policy and government affairs adviser and as a policy representative for NARAL Pro-Choice America.

She also worked at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation is a senior policy capacity and served on the board of Family Medicine for America’s Health from 2014 to 2017.

She co-founded Neighborhood Villages in 2018, which aims to increase access to high-quality, affordable daycare. According to Neighborhood Villages,

“Neighborhood Villages is testing a new form of inexpensive, high-quality child care that begins at birth and is designed to benefit the complete kid and family.” We incorporate health care and on-site wraparound support services into the fabric of our schools through a partnership with community health professionals to help children and their families thrive.”

Lauren Anne Birchfield Net Worth 2023

Lauren Anne Birchfield has a current net worth of millions. Though specific data are unclear, she is said to be worth $15 million by a few sources. Her profession as a health policy lawyer has netted her a sizable sum of money.

Her husband, on the other hand, has large interests and a net worth of between $20 million and $60 million, according to Wikipedia. Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy, was elected to Congress in November 2012, defeating Republican Sean Bielat to replace Barney Frank.

Since 2013, her husband has served as the United States Representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district. Before being elected to Congress, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer and as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex County, Massachusetts offices.

Birchfield’s Relationship

In terms of her private life, Lauren Anne Birchfield has been married to Joe Kennedy III since 2012. He is the son of Joseph P. Kennedy II, an American businessman, and Sheila Rauch, his ex-wife. Birchfield’s father officiated their wedding ceremony, which was attended by 200 people and held in the Community Church.

Birchfield and Kennedy first met in a seminar taught by now-Senator Elizabeth Warren at Harvard Law School, when they were both students. In 2013, she reportedly told WPRI-TV:

They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Elanor ‘Ellie’ Kennedy, on December 29, 2015, nearly three years after their wedding, and their second child, a son named James Matthew Kennedy, on December 20, 2017.

She and her husband and children live happily in Washington, D.C., the United States of America.

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