Who is Tim Walz’s wife Gwen? Meet the mother-of-two teacher standing by Kamala Harris’ VP choice
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s wife, Gwen, is a teacher like him.
The two met as young high school teachers, working in temporary classrooms in Nebraska.
Gwen could hear Tim’s loud voice through the wall of her classroom and she was annoyed by it at first, according to the Star Tribune.
But a relationship was formed anyway.
Shortly after they met, Gwen and Tim organized a summer trip to China for their students.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (left) and his wife Gwen (center right) have two children: Hope (center left), who is now a college graduate, and Gus (right), who is currently in high school.
Gwen Walz (second from right, in white jacket) is a teacher like her husband. The two met when they were both teaching in temporary classrooms at a public high school in Nebraska and Tim’s voice was too loud
Gwen Walz (left) and Tim Walz (right) on primary night in August 2018. Walz won the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party primary and went on to win the general election.
According to the office of Minnesota’s first lady, they took students abroad almost every summer until 2003.
The couple married in 1997.
Gwen struggled with infertility and was a patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, before giving birth to their eldest daughter, Hope, in January 2021.
Minnesota’s first lady used IVF to conceive, and she may bring it up on the campaign trail as conservative courts seek to restrict this form of fertility treatment.
Hope recently graduated from college and is a vegetarian, as she revealed in a recently viral video of her father trying to convince her to try a turkey leg at the Minnesota State Fair.
The couple also have a son, Gus, who is currently in high school.
Gus was the one who decided to rescue the Walzes’ dog, a Labrador retriever crossbreed named Scout.
Gwen Walz (left), with her husband, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (center) and their daughter Hope (right)
President Joe Biden greets Gov. Tim Walz’s mother Darlene (left) and his wife Gwen (right) during a visit to Minnesota in May 2022
Gwen said at the press conference marking Scout’s unveiling: “I was not involved in those negotiations.”
Gwen is originally from Minnesota and grew up in the western part of the state with three sisters.
As first lady, she is a champion of education, including for prisoners.
She is politically liberal, like her husband, and supports criminal justice reform initiatives and is an ally of the LGBTQ community, she says in her bio as Minnesota’s first lady.