Cruz and her husband have two daughters, Caroline and Catherine.

to Texas in 2004, and experienced a period of depression as a result of the transition. Subsequent to getting married in 2001, Cruz moved from Washington D.C. Her second graduate degree was an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2000. In 1995, she received a Masters of European Business degree from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. While at Claremont McKenna, she studied abroad at the University of Strasbourg. While attending the school, she was active in the student Republican group. Following high school, Nelson attended Claremont McKenna College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Economics and International Relations in 1994. She completed her secondary education in 1990, at Monterey Bay Academy, an Adventist boarding school about 150 miles north in La Selva Beach, California. Nelson attended Valley View Adventist Academy in Arroyo Grande, near her home town of San Luis Obispo. Nelson became interested in business as a child, and sold homemade bread with her brother, Scott. During a part of Nelson's childhood, she lived with her family in Kenya, Nigeria, and throughout Asia, where they served as missionaries, while both parents participated in dental health work. Her maternal grandfather Olavi Johannes Rouhe was from Savonlinna, Finland. Nelson was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. Heidi Suzanne Nelson was born on August 7, 1972, in San Luis Obispo, California, to Suzanne Jane (née Rouhe), a dental hygienist, and Peter Christian Nelson, a dentist. In his 2016 presidential campaign, she took a leave of absence to work as his primary fundraiser and surrogate. Senator Ted Cruz, with whom she has two daughters. In 2005 she joined Goldman Sachs as a private wealth manager. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign and subsequently held various positions in the Bush Admistration, including as an advisor to the Treasury Department and National Security Council. She was an economic policy adviser to George W. She has been a managing director at Goldman Sachs since 2012.Ĭruz completed her tertiary education at Claremont McKenna College, the Université libre de Bruxelles, and Harvard Business School. Heidi Suzanne Cruz ( née Nelson born August 7, 1972) is an American businesswoman.

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