Sarah Huckabee Sanders

On May 25, 2010 she married Bryan Chatfield Sanders, a fellow media consultant, in Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands, at the ‘Nazareth Lutheran Church’. She first met her husband during her father’s 2008 presidential campaign in Iowa. Sanders also remained 2016 media consultant of Huckabee.

The couple is blessed with three children, Scarlett, George and Huck.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was born on August 13, 1982, to Mike Huckabee and Janet Huckabee as their only daughter among three children. Her two brothers are John and David.

Her father is an American politician, commentator, musician, author and Christian minister, who remained the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. Her father also remained a candidate twice in the US Republican presidential primaries in 2008 and 2016 respectively.

Her mother, Janet Huckabee, is also an American politician who ran as the nominee for the US Republican Party for Arkansas Secretary of State in 2002.

Huckabee Sanders studied at the ‘Little Rock Central High School’ located in Little Rock, Arkansas. She then studied at the ‘Ouachita Baptist University’ located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ journey as a political aide began when she joined her father Mike Huckabee’s re-election campaign as field coordinator during the Arkansas gubernatorial election in 2002. The election saw her father being re-elected for a second four-year term as Governor of Arkansas.

She served as a regional go-between for congressional matters at the Department of Education. In 2004, during the re-election campaign of the US President George W. Bush, Huckabee Sanders served as field coordinator for the campaign in Ohio.

During her father’s presidential campaign in 2008, she was its national political director. According to American daily middle-market newspaper ‘US Today’, she gave consultation to her father "on everything from debate strategy to tie selection”.

According to a ‘Time’ magazine profile she spent her time in the 2008 campaign "working up to 90 hours a week, running her father's schedule and event briefings not only in Iowa but in South Carolina and New Hampshire. In addition, she oversees outreach and acts as her Dad's surrogate in Iowa."

Mike Huckabee pulled out from the race to the White House on March 4, 2008 after losing the Texas Republican primary.