ATTORNEY Sarah Bloom Raskin started her political career in both the political and private sectors and spent several years working for the US government.
Raskin previously worked under former President Barack Obama as governor of the Federal Reserve System and deputy treasury secretary – she is now a visiting professor at Duke Law School.
Who is Sarah Bloom Raskin?
Sarah Bloom Raskin was born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1961 and attended Amherst College where she earned her bachelor’s degree in economics.
She received her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1986 and went on to get her first job at the firm Mayer Brown and Platt in New York City.
Her career took her to Arnold & Porter focusing on corporate finance before getting a job as an attorney for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 1993.
Sarah Raskin made history as the first woman to become Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department in 2014.
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In a press release confirming Sarah Raskin's new position, then-Secretary Jacob J. Lew said, "The Treasury Department is gaining a proven and experienced leader who is dedicated to promoting economic prosperity, and enhancing business and consumer confidence.
"I look forward to working with her to safeguard our financial system, drive growth, create jobs, and expand opportunity for all Americans."
How did she meet her husband?
She met her husband, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) while she was pursuing her law degree at Harvard Law School.
They met in a constitutional law class and Jamie Raskin told Bethesda Magazine he couldn't stop staring at her.
"I used to go basically just to look at Sarah, and I could have sworn she was looking right back at me the whole time," he said, adding, "but it turns out that she didn’t have her contact lenses in."
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It wasn't until the end of the semester when Sarah Raskin approached her future husband and told him she'd had a dream about him the night before.
They got married in August 1990, and a celebratory column was featured in The New York Times announcing their wedding would take place in August that year.
Does she have children?
Sarah and Jamie Raskin have two daughters, Hannah, 29, and Tabitha, 25, and a son Thomas who was 25 years old when he committed suicide on December 31, 2020.
The Raskin family has been open about their son's mental health issues and hopes to help others who suffer from mental illness and raise awareness.
"Tommy was remarkable from the beginning," Jamie Raskin told NPR. "He had a photographic memory and, like some other kids in our family, knew all the presidents and vice presidents in order.
"But it wasn't his mind that marked him as so extraordinary. It was his heart. The stories of his love and compassion are absolutely astounding."
Thomas, known as Tommy by his loved ones, was an animal rights advocate and at the DC VegFest in 2017, he read his poem, Where War Begins.
An excerpt from his poem says:
"When it comes to the right to live free from the blight of aggression, oppression, from tyrannous might,
"How smart you are friends shouldn't matter at all;
"Trauma is still trauma for the creatures that crawl."
In a tribute to Tommy's life, his family said, “He left us this farewell note on New Year’s Eve day: ‘Please forgive me. My illness won today. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. All my love, Tommy.’
"(Tommy) began to be tortured later in his 20s by a blindingly painful and merciless 'disease called depression.'
"… A kind of relentless torture in the brain for him, and despite very fine doctors and a loving family and friendship network of hundreds who adored him beyond words and whom he adored too, the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable at last for our dear boy, this young man of surpassing promise to our broken world."
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Jamie Raskin's book, Unthinkable, was published in January 2022 and explores the emotional range associated with his son's death.
"My book is not a how-to book on grieving because I don't know that that exists," Raskin told People.
"Everybody's just on their journey in dealing with death just like everybody's on the journey and dealing with life. Any glimpses of understanding I got, I was willing to share."
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text Crisis Text Line at 741741.
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