Dr. Jill Biden (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
After a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticized Dr. Jill Biden’s use of the “doctor” honorific, Washington State Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis took to Twitter to defend the soon-to-be-First Lady.
Dr. Biden acquired her doctorate in education from the University of Delaware in 2007, and has been referred to with that honorific ever since. Columnist Joseph Epstein took issue with that in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Dec. 11, referring to her as “kiddo,” and arguing that “no one should call himself ‘Dr.’ unless he has delivered a child.”
“’Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic,” Epstein wrote. “Your degree is, I believe, an Ed.D., a doctor of education, earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title ‘Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students’ Needs.'”