Kathleen Biden

Kathleen Anne Buhle (born ), formerly known as Kathleen Biden, is an American writer and non-profit executive. She is the founder and CEO of the non-profit organization The House at 1229. Buhle is the author of the 2022 memoir If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing, which details her life while married to Hunter Biden, a son of 46th U.S. president Joe Biden.

Early life and education Kathleen Anne Buhle was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a middle-class Catholic family. Her mother, Roberta Buhle, was a schoolteacher and her father James F. Buhle was a salesman for the Chicago White Sox. She was educated in Catholic schools and graduated from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, with a degree in psychology.

Career and marriage Buhle worked as a high school guidance and admissions counselor. The family moved back to Washington, D.C., and rented a house in Tenleytown. When her father-in-law and step-mother-in-law Jill Biden were respectively serving as vice president and second lady of the United States, Buhle became close friends with First Lady Michelle Obama. On December 9, 2016, Buhle filed for a divorce, and on February 23, 2017, she filed a motion in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, seeking to freeze Biden's assets. After initially being "messy" the divorce was finalized amicably later that year. In 2019, she formally changed her surname from Biden back to her maiden name, Buhle.

She authored her memoir titled If We Break about her marriage to Biden and his drug addiction. The book came out in June 2022.

Buhle founded the non-profit organization The House at 1229, a women's club to assist people in need in Washington, D.C. Buhle works as the CEO of the organization.

Personal life Buhle lives in Washington, D.C.