Yumi Hogan
Yumi Hogan | |
|---|---|
 Hogan in 2015 | |
| First Lady of Maryland | |
| Assumed office January 21, 2015 | |
| Governor | Larry Hogan |
| Preceded by | Katie O'Malley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Yumi Kim December 25, 1959[1] Naju, South Korea |
| Citizenship | United States (1994–present) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Kim Velez, Jaymi Sterling, and Julie Kim |
| Alma mater | American University (2010), Maryland Institute College of Art (2008)[2] |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Gim Yumi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Yumi |
Yumi Hogan (née Kim; born December 25, 1959) is the First Lady of the State of Maryland and the wife of Larry Hogan, the Governor of Maryland. She became the first South Korean-born first lady in the United States, as well as Maryland's First Lady, with the inauguration of her husband as governor of Maryland in January 2015. Formerly using the surname Kim, she was born in Naju, South Jeolla Province, South Korea.[3][4][5]
Early life and education
The youngest of eight children,[5] Hogan grew up on a chicken farm outside of Seoul and immigrated with her first husband to the United States while in her twenties.[6] After living in Hawaii,[4] Texas and then California, she divorced and moved to Maryland in the early 1990s,[1] settling in Howard County.[6] To support her three daughters, she taught in her basement and worked as a cashier.[6]
Personal life
Self-described as "traditional", Hogan holds Presbyterian religious beliefs, was hesitant to tell her family of her divorce, and did not live with her husband until they were married.[3] She became a U.S. citizen in 1994.[6] Hogan's artwork, primarily abstract landscapes in Sumi ink on Korean Hanji paper, has been shown locally and around the world and it was at an art show in Columbia that she and Larry Hogan met[3][7] in 2001.[8] They were married in 2004[6] at Paca House and Garden in Annapolis.[3] Hogan's husband encouraged her art interest and she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University in 2010.[9]
Career
As First Lady of Maryland, Hogan has continued to teach as an adjunct faculty member at her MICA alma mater,[7][9] and she plans to support the arts community and social issues such as those affecting single mothers.[6]
References
- ^ a b Bieniek, Matthew (December 24, 2014). "First lady had humble beginnings". Cumberland Times-News. Cumberland, Maryland. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
- ^ "Bio – Yumi Hogan". Retrieved April 27, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Barker, Jeff (October 10, 2014). "Artist-wife Yumi Hogan strays 'outside of her normal comfort level'". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ^ a b Lee, Suevon (March 3, 2015). "Meet Yumi Hogan, Maryland's New First Lady". KoreAm. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ^ a b Baltic, Sarah (April 2015). "Balancing Motherhood & Career". Maryland Women's Journal: 22–23. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b c d e f Rosenwald, Michael S. (January 23, 2015). "Md. Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-born wife, Hogan, are a historic first couple". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ a b Rosenwald, Michael S. (February 27, 2015). "Md. First Lady Yumi Hogan serves her own kimchi at Lunar New Year celebration". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ^ Butler, Paul (2015). "One-on-One with Governor Larry Hogan". WBOC. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ^ a b "Yumi Hogan". Maryland State Archives. December 26, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- 1959 births
- American University alumni
- First Ladies and Gentlemen of Maryland
- Living people
- Maryland Institute College of Art alumni
- South Korean emigrants to the United States
- Women in Maryland politics
- People from Naju
- American artists of Korean descent
- American Presbyterians
- South Korean Presbyterians
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century women artists
- 21st-century American painters
- 21st-century women artists
- American women painters
- Maryland Institute College of Art faculty
- People from Howard County, Maryland