Christine Blasey Ford
Christine Blasey Ford | |
|---|---|
Ford in 2018 | |
| Born | Christine Margaret Blasey November 1966 (age 58) |
| Education | |
| Occupation | College professor |
| Spouse |
Russell Ford (m. 2002) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Bridgit Mendler (niece) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Measuring young children's coping responses to interpersonal conflict (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael 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.