Before Donald Trump was elected president, Ivanka Trump was perhaps best known as an occasional judge on “The Apprentice” and the namesake for a line of jewelry, shoe and apparel items. She’s considerably more high-profile now.
Let's take a closer look and her life and career:
Ivanka Trump watches Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's keynote conversation at the 2017 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.Sait Serkan Gurbuz/AP
Some suggested Ivanka played a quasi-first lady role in the first months of Donald Trump’s administration when her step mother, Melania Trump, continued to live in New York while her half-brother Barron finished the school year. By March of 2017, however, Ivanka was pushed into the political spotlight when she was named a member of her father's administration. After advising her father during his first two months in office, she took this official, unpaid position in part because of ethics concerns about her access to certain classified materials without such an appointment.Her husband, Jared Kushner, is also attracting media attention. He has served as senior advisor to the president since inauguration day.
Few members of the Trump Administration have escaped criticism during these past tumultuous months, and Ivanka certainly has drawn detractors. But she has been portrayed more often as a calming influence on her impulsive father. Others compared her to Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who ardently defended her father, Richard Nixon, and his embattled presidential administration.
Ivanka was named after her mother, Ivana Trump, but has used the diminutive form of the name throughout her life. Ivana was Donald Trump's first wife and the couple had three children, of which Ivanka is the middle child.
Her parents divorced in 1991, when she was 10, and paparazzi famously followed her into her elementary school looking for her to comment on the high-profile split.
She grew up in Manhattan before enrolling at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn. when she was 15. Ivanka was not a fan of the school or her time there, calling Choate a "prison" that made her envious of "friends in New York (that) were having fun."After high school, Ivanka went to Georgetown for two years before transferring to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated cum laude in 2004 with a degree in economics and initially took a position with Forest City Enterprises before joining the family business in 2005.
Ivanka partnered with Dynamic Diamond Corp. to create Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry in 2007 while still working as vice president of development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization.
In addition to a flagship retail store in the Trump Tower, she started a line of clothes, handbags, shoes, and accessories.
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