Joanna Breyer Biography – Joanna Breyer Wiki
Joanna Breyer professionally recognized as The Honourable Joanna Freda Hare is a psychologist and member of the British aristocracy. As a psychologist, she worked with children with cancer and their families for over 25 years at Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Children’s Hospital Boston. She worked in the David B. Perini Quality of Life Clinic for Survivors of Childhood Cancer for over 10 years. She is the wife of Stephen Breyer, an American lawyer, and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1994.
Her husband was nominated by President Bill Clinton and replaced retiring justice, Harry Blackmun. Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, is his designated successor. He is generally associated with the liberal wing of the Court. On January 27, 2022, Breyer and President Joe Biden announced her husband’s intention to retire from the Supreme Court. On February 25, 2022, Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and one of Breyer’s former law clerks, to succeed him. The Senate confirmed Jackson on April 7, 2022, by a vote of 53–47. Stephen will remain on the Supreme Court until it goes into summer recess on June 30, 2022.
In 2018, Joanna published the book, When Your Child Is Sick: A Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child who is Very Ill. She was educated at Heathfield and at Lady Margaret Hall as an undergraduate. She earned an Oxford degree with honors in politics, philosophy, and economics, a master’s in education, and a doctorate in psychology from Harvard in 1983.
Joanna Breyer Age
She was born Joanna Freda Hare. She was born in 1942 in England.
Joanna Breyer Husband
She is married to Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. The pair got married on September 4, 1967, at a village church in Suffolk, England — the ceremony having been carefully scrubbed of references to Jesus — and celebrated quietly at the Hare family’s country seat, Little Blakenham, where the viscount kept a gracious estate dubbed Cottage Farm. They have three children together and are also grandparents. They met at a Georgetown dinner party in 1966 when Stephen was a Justice Department aide and she was an assistant to the London Sunday Times’ Washington correspondent.
Joanna Breyer Children
With her husband, they have three adult children: Chloe, an Episcopal priest, Nell, and Michael. Her youngest son followed in the steps of his father and famously ran in 2012 as a Democratic candidate for District 19 of the California State Assembly, however, he lost in the general election to Phil Ting.
Despite having a high-profile father, the children have stayed out of the spotlight over the years as not much information is available on them.
Joanna Breyer Parents
She is the younger daughter of John Hugh Hare 1st Viscount Blakenham who died in 1982, and his wife the Viscountess Blakenham, Nancy Hare, nee Pearson, and granddaughter of Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel. She has two siblings, Michael and Mary Anne. She is a member of the British aristocracy.
According to The Washington Post, her family is also enormously wealthy, having started the Pearson group, which is a media empire run by Joanna’s older brother, Michael John Hare, the second Viscount Blakenham. (In their April 1994 financial disclosure statement, the Breyers list ownership of $2,324,958 in Pearson stock, a goodly portion of their $6.5 million net worth.)
