Ashley Estes Kavanaugh is an American public official and former political aide. Since 2004, she has been the wife of

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Brett Kavanaugh Brett Michael Kavanaugh ( ; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, and has served since Oc ...

Early life and education

Kavanaugh was born in

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. She graduated from

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in 1993, where she was a member of the Student Council for three years and played golf for three years. She attended the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, beginning in 1993, and graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Journalism degree. In 2004, she married fellow

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staff member

. Both President Bush and

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attended the wedding ceremony in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Career

Kavanaugh served as an assistant to

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

from 1996 through 1999, during his tenure as Governor of Texas and in the

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. When Bush became President in January 2001, Kavanaugh took the position of Personal Secretary to the President, serving in the position until 2004. Kavanaugh was Director of Special Projects at the George W. Bush Presidential Foundation from 2005 to 2009, and then Media Relations Coordinator at the

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from 2009 to 2010. Since 2016, Kavanaugh has served as

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of the village of

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, taking over for acting town manager John Higgins.

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