Background and Family
Gore was born in Nashville, Tennessee and grew up there as well as in Washington D.C.. She graduated from National Cathedral School in 1991. She received her B.A. in history and literature in 1995 from Harvard University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2000. During college, she interned as a journalist for WREG-TV and The Times-Picayune. She later wrote for El Pais in Spain and Slate in Seattle. After law school, she was briefly an associate with the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.
On July 12, 1997 she married Andrew Newman Schiff, a doctor of internal medicine in Washington D.C. who is now a biotechnology fund manager. Andrew is the great-great-grandson of industrialist Jacob Schiff. They have three children together: Wyatt Gore Schiff, (born July 4, 1999 in New York City) Anna Hunger Schiff, (born August 23, 2001 in New York City) and Oscar Aitcheson Schiff (born in 2006). As of June 9, 2010, she and husband Andrew are separated.
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