Christine Blasey Ford

Christine Blasey Ford
Ford in 2018
Born
Christine Margaret Blasey

November 1966 (age 58)
Education
OccupationCollege professor
Spouse
Russell Ford
(m. 2002)
Children2
RelativesBridgit Mendler (niece)
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Institutions
ThesisMeasuring young children's coping responses to interpersonal conflict (1995)
Doctoral advisorMichael D. Newcomb

Christine Margaret Blasey Ford (/ˈblɑːzi/ BLAH-zee; born November 1966) is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She specializes in designing statistical models for research projects. During her academic career, Ford has worked as a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine Collaborative Clinical Psychology Program.

In September 2018, Ford claimed that then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in Bethesda, Maryland, when they were teenagers in the summer of 1982. She testified about her allegations during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination later that month.