Supriya jolly jindal childrens books
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Growing up Jindal
- By 225 Staff@225batonrouge
The new president’s young family will have to learn quickly how to balance their new, very public lives with family life in the White House. In the Louisiana Governor’s Mansion, the Jindal family has spent the past year learning to do the same.
One year after taking office, Gov. Bobby Jindal and First Lady Supriya Jolly Jindal insist the challenges of raising 6-year-old Selia, 4-year-old Shaan and 2-year-old Slade aren’t that unusual.
“It’s just making time for everything in a day,” Supriya says. “There are so many things you’ve got to juggle to make the day work … [and] making sure we give each child individual attention.”
Even with a mansion personal of 22, it still takes an extended family to raise Louisiana’s first family. “My family is extremely important,” the governor says, “and I make them a priority. Because of the nature of the job,
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Supriya Jindal with her husband, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, in 2009. (Getty)
Supriya Jolly Jindal is Louisiana’s First Lady and the wife of 2016 Republican Presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday.
She has lived her entire life in her home state of Louisiana, and is a graduate of Tulane University. The 43-year-old mother of three would be the first Indian-American First Lady in United States history.
Here’s what else you need to know about Supriya Jindal:
1. She Was Born in India & Raised in Louisiana
Louisana Governor Bobby Jindal and his wife, Supriya, with an Indian-American family in 2008. (Getty)
Supriya Jindal was born in New Delhi, India, while her parents were there visiting family, she said in a New Orleans Times-Picayune profile. She has lived her entire life in Louisiana, according to her biography on the Louisiana governor’s website.
She lived in Metairie, Louisiana, until she was four, wh
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Supriya Jolly Jindal – Signature
- By 225 Staff@225batonrouge
Louisiana’s Mary Poppins of math and science education is no stranger to getting her hands dirty.
In 1996, a big night out for Supriya Jolly, then a New Orleans resident, typically involved a hard hat, steel-toed boots, spreadsheets and case studies. The magna cum laude kemikalie engineer would spend the evening hours engrossed in economics, accounting and business ethics courses at Tulane University. Then she’d drive to St. Charles Parish, where she’d cheerfully climb into industrial tanks to check flow meters and valves during the night shift at Monsanto’s Luling plant.
Shortly after marrying the whiz kid at the helm of the state agency responsible for hospitals and public health—and accepting a job at Albemarle in Baton Rouge—the newly minted MBA completed coursework for a PhD in marketing from LSU.
Intellectual curiosity and exposure to varying viewpoints enticed Louisiana’s First Lady to advance her e