Is Barbara Boxer Married?

Barbara Boxer, the three-term Democratic U.S. senator from California, is running for re-election against Carly Fiorina, the tea party-courting Republican nominee and former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in the 2010 midterm elections, here are answers to some frequently asked questions about Boxer's pre-political life. --Carl Franzen

Is Barbara Boxer married?

Yes.

Who is Barbara Boxer's husband?

Boxer's husband is Stewart Boxer.

How old is Barbara Boxer's husband?

Stewart Boxer is 71 years old.

What does Barbara Boxer's husband do for a living?

Stewart Boxer is an attorney who focuses on workers' compensation issues. He is also, along with Michael G. Gerson, a founding member of Boxer & Gerson LLP, an Oakland, Calif., law firm.

How long have Barbara Boxer and her husband been married?

Barbara Levy and Stewart Boxer were married 48 years ago, in 1962.

How and when did Barbara Boxer and her husband meet?

They met at Brooklyn College. They married as seniors, when she was 21 and he was 23. Both graduated in 1962 (her with a bachelor's degree in economics).

Was either Barbara Boxer or her husband married before?

No, it is the first marriage for both.

Does Barbara Boxer have children?

Barbara Boxer and her husband are the parents of two children: a son, Douglas Boxer, born in 1965, and a daughter, Nicole Boxer, born in 1967.

Does Barbara Boxer have grandchildren?

Yes. As of the 2010 election cycle, she and Stewart Boxer have four grandchildren.

The eldest is Zachary Boxer Rodham, born in 1995, son of her daughter Nicole and her then-husband Anthony "Tony" Rodham, the brother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The couple has since divorced, and Nicole sued Rodham for overdue child-support payments. Nicole remarried Kevin Keegan, and they had a son, Sawyer Boxer Keegan, in 2009.

Boxer is also the grandmother of Zain Ian Boxer (born 2007) and Reyna Sofia Boxer (born 2009), Doug's children with his wife Amy.


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