Fox News ^ | 3/09/25 | Julia Johnson Posted on 3/9/2025, by Libloather
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Dem-RI, has emerged into the spotlight amid a new ethics complaint due to his voting in favor of laws that ultimately funded millions in grants to a nonprofit climate group that pays his wife's consulting firm. But who is his wife, Sandra Whitehouse?
Whitehouse earned her bachelor's degree at Yale, as did her Democrat senator husband, according to LinkedIn. She earned her master's degree at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the U of Rhode Island, from 1986 to 1994. She and Whitehouse married in 1986 at the St. George's School Chapel in Newport, RI, according to a newspaper announcement. The couple live in Newport w/ children, Molly and Alexander, and two grandchildren.
Mrs Whitehouse has advised nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations, a state agency, a legislative body and private companies, according to a biography from the Atlantic Council, where she was a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Her husband was first elected to the US Senate in 2006. She first began working for the group at the center of the latest ethics complaint roughly two years later, in 2008. (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...