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| - America's incoming "second gentleman" Doug Emhoff will teach at Georgetown Law school in Washington when his wife Kamala Harris becomes the first female vice president, the faculty announced Thursday. Emhoff, a lawyer specializing in media, sports and entertainment, took leave from his firm DLA Piper during the election campaign, and Georgetown will be his first teaching position. While Harris will be making history in January becoming the first female and first Black US vice president, Emhoff will become the first "second gentleman" -- or, as some prefer it, "second husband." "I've long wanted to teach and serve the next generation of young lawyers," Emhoff said in a statement released by Georgetown Law, which described him as "one of the nation's leading intellectual property and business litigators." Harris and Emhoff, who married in 2014, will also be the first mixed-race couple to occupy their positions. He is white, while she is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants. Both are 56. Traditionally, the wives of presidents -- known by the official title "First Lady" -- and vice presidents have been expected to strike balance between support and independence. President-elect Joe Biden's wife Jill is a community college teacher who has said she will continue to teach after moving into the White House. She would be the first First Lady to keep a full-time job. Current second lady Karen Pence teaches art at a school part-time. bgs/ft
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