Personal Life
Tauscher lives in Alamo. Prior to their divorce in 1999, she was married to Republican businessman William Tauscher, former Chairman and CEO of Vanstar Corporation, current director of Safeway, Inc., and founder of the Tauscher Group, which invests and assists in the management of enterprises in home products, transportation, security and real estate. She has a daughter, Katherine (b. 1991).
On the same day as her taking the office of Undersecretary she married retired airline pilot Jim Cieslak.
In 2010, Ms. Tauscher was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
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