Maryanne Trump Barry, the former federal judge and older sister of former President Donald Trump, passed away on March 16 at the age of 86 at her home in New York.
The New York Police Department has verified that police were dispatched to her Manhattan apartment around 4:30 a.m., where they found her body. The reason for death is yet unknown.
Who Was Maryanne Trump Barry?
As the eldest child of real estate developer Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, she was born in Queens, New York City, USA.
She is the older sibling of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. Her formal schooling began at Kew-Forest School. She graduated with honors from Mount Holyoke College in 1958 and Columbia University’s Master of Public Law and Government program in 1962. After that, she went on to earn her J.D. from Hofstra University’s School of Law in 1974.
She focused her career on the legal field. She practiced law in the United States and later became a federal judge there.
After spending the previous thirteen years at home raising her family, Barry entered the legal profession in 1974 as one of only two women out of a total of sixty-two attorneys at the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
She worked in the civil division from 1974 to 1975, and then in the appeals division from 1976 to 1982, where she was chief of the division from 1977 to 1982 and deputy chief of the division from 1976 to the same year.
From 1981 to 1982, she served as the executive assistant to the United States Attorney. She worked for the US Attorney’s office as his first assistant from 1981 to 1983.
Maryanne Trump Net Worth
Maryanne Trump Barry had a fortune of $200 million. She earned a lot of money as an attorney.
Barry left $4 million to Fairfield University’s Center for Ignatian Spirituality in 2016, money that goes toward student aid at the private Catholic university.
She has become well-known and earned a number of awards for her efforts in addition to her financial success.
Barry was honored by then-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2004. The Sandra Day O’Connor Award is presented annually by the Seton Hall University School of Law to a deserving female lawyer or public servant.
Was Maryanne Trump Barry Married?
Maryanne Trump Barry has gone through two marriages. In 1980, she and her first husband, David Desmond, divorced. David William Desmond was their only child. In 1982 she married John Joseph Barry, a lawyer from New Jersey. They stayed together for another 18 years till he passed away in the year 2000.
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