Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Biography

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer

Independent (as of Oct. 9, 2023)

Candidacy announced (as Democrat): Apr. 5, 2023

Federal Election Committee (FEC) financial data

Personal Life

Full Name: Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. (son of Robert F. Kennedy; nephew of President John F. Kennedy)

Birthdate: Jan. 17, 1954

Birthplace: Washington, D.C.

Marital Status: married to Cheryl Hines, actress

Children:

• Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy III, writer, filmmaker, and actor
• Kathleen Alexandra ‘Kick’ Kennedy, actor, writer, philanthropist, and activist
• Conor Richardson Kennedy, activist
• Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, model
• William Finbar “Finn” Kennedy
• Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy, student

Religion: Catholic

Pets: none found

Career, Education, & Publications

Career Highlights:

• Environmental law specialist and Partner, Morgan & Morgan, 2016-present
• Partner, Kennedy & Madonna, LLP, 2000-present
• Founder and Chair, Children’s Health Defense (formerly World Mercury Project), 2011-present
• Founder and President, Waterkeeper Alliance, June 1999-2020
• Co-Founder, Keeper Springs, 1998-2013
• Founder, Supervising Attorney, and Co-Director, Environmental Litigation Clinic, Pace University School of Law, 1987-2017
• Senior Attorney, Riverkeeper, 1985
• Investigator, Riverkeeper, 1984
• Volunteer, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan, 1983

Education:

• MSL, environmental law, Pace University
• JD, University of Virginia
• BA, American history and literature, Harvard College, 1976

Select Publications:

• With John Leake and Peter A. McCullough, The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death while Battling the Bio–Pharmaceutical Complex, 2022
• A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals, 2022
• The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, 2021
• With Dick Russell, Climate in Crisis: Who’s Causing It, Who’s Fighting It, and How We Can Reverse It before It’s Too Late, 2020
• American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family, 2018
• Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn’t Commit, 2016
• Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury–a Known Neurotoxin–from Vaccines, 2014
• Robert Smalls: The Boat Thief, 2008
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s American Heroes: The Story of Joshua Chamberlain and the American Civil War, 2007
• Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Highjacking Our Democracy, 2005
• St. Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy, 2004
• With John Cronin, The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right, 1997
• Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.: A Biography, 1978

Internet & Social Media Presence