Jane O’meara Sanders – Bio, Age & Net Worth of Bernie Sanders Wife
Jane O’Meara Sanders (a.k.a Mary Jane O’Meara) was born on January 3, 1950, to the family of Benedict and Bernadette O’Meara. She and her four siblings were raised as Catholics in Brooklyn and they also went to Catholic schools. Consequently, Jane attended Saint Saviour High School, a Catholic girls’ school. After graduating from Saint Saviour, she proceeded to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. However, Jane O’Meara left schooling for a while and headed back to Brooklyn to go have (her three) children with her first husband, David Driscoll.
The couple moved to Virginia. She would later complete her college education with a BA in social work at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. The young family had moved to Vermont in 1975 when her husband, an IBM employee, was transferred there. But Jane O’Meara had asked her husband to seek a transfer because she wasn’t comfortable staying in Manassas, Virginia.
They soon divorced not long after the birth of their last child, Dave. Together, Jane O’Meara and David Driscoll had three children—Heather Titus (b. 1971), Carina Driscoll (b. 1974), and David Driscoll (b. 1975). But she wasn’t done schooling; at least not yet. In 1996, Jane O’Meara bagged a Ph.D. in leadership studies in politics and education from Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Career Exploits
Jane O’Meara Sanders’ work history dates back to her time with the Juvenile Division of the Burlington Police Department. She then worked as a community organizer with the King Street Area Youth Center and for the Volunteers in Service to America. These jobs helped offset her ginormous student loans. Between 1981 and 1991, Jane O’Meara Sanders served as founding Director of the Mayor’s Youth Office and Department Head in the City of Burlington. She was also a founding member of the Women’s Council & the Film Commission and served as a School Board Commissioner in K-12 education.
Sanders helped bring her alma mater back to form when she was appointed as Provost and Interim President of the school, Goddard College, in 1996. Between 2004 and 2011 Jane O’Meara Sanders served as President of Burlington College; a small liberal arts college founded in 1972. However, the school was shut down in 2016 owing to financial issues several sources blamed Sanders for. In June of 2017, Sanders and her last son, David Driscoll, founded The Sanders Institute, an advanced think tank originally made up of 11 fellows; including Sanders.
Like her 10 counterparts, Sanders receives no remuneration for her work. However, she gets a package that covers her travel fares. On March 15, 2019, The Sanders Institute publicly announced that it was halting operations and will no longer accept donations, for the period of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign.
