Yumi Hogan

Yumi Hogan
Yumi Hogan at the Bosom Buddies Ball in 2018
Hogan in 2018
First Lady of Maryland
Assumed role
January 21, 2015
Governor Larry Hogan
Preceded by Katie O'Malley
Personal details
Born Yumi Kim
(1959-12-25) December 25, 1959
Naju, South Korea
Spouse(s)
Larry Hogan (m. 2004)
Children 3
Education Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA)
American University (MFA)
Birth name
Hangul 김유미
Revised Romanization Gim Yumi
McCune–Reischauer Kim Yumi

Yumi Hogan (née Kim; born December 25, 1959)[1] is the First Lady of the State of Maryland and the wife of Larry Hogan, the Governor of Maryland. She became the first South Korean-born first lady of a U.S. state, as well as Maryland's First Lady, with the inauguration of her husband as governor of Maryland in January 2015.

Early life

Formerly using the surname Kim, she was born in Naju, South Jeolla Province, South Korea.[2][3][4] She is the youngest of eight children and grew up on a chicken farm outside of Seoul, walking two miles to school each way.[4][5]

She immigrated to the United States with her first husband while in her twenties.[6] After living in Hawaii,[3] Texas and then California, she divorced and moved to Maryland in the early 1990s,[1] settling in Howard County.[6] To support her three daughters, she taught in her basement and worked as a cashier.[6]

First Lady of Maryland

As First Lady of Maryland, Hogan has continued to teach as an adjunct faculty member at her MICA alma mater,[7][8] and she plans to support the arts community and social issues such as those affecting single mothers.[6]

In 2016, Hogan received the International Leadership Foundation's Inspirational Leader Award. She is also a 2017 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.[5]

In March 2017, Hogan hosted an awards presentation during a Spring Student Artwork Exhibition in the House of Delegates Building in Annapolis, telling attendees "you alone have the control to create your special identity through your artwork".[9] In June 2017, she was to attend a luncheon celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council.[10] 27 of her abstract landscape paintings were featured at an art show at the Ocean City Center for the Arts in July 2017, with sales proceeds from her exhibit donated to art therapy programs for pediatric cancer patients.[11]

Personal life

She became a U.S. citizen in 1994.[3][6]

Self-described as "traditional", Hogan holds Presbyterian religious beliefs, was hesitant to tell her family of her divorce, and did not live with her second husband until they were married.[2]

With her first husband, she has three daughters: Kim Velez, Jaymi Kim Sterling, and Julie Kim.[3][12][13][14]

Hogan's artwork, primarily abstract landscapes in Sumi ink on Korean Hanji paper, has been shown locally and around the world and it was at an art show in Columbia that she and Larry Hogan met[2][7] in 2001.[15] They were married in 2004[6] at Paca House and Garden in Annapolis.[2] Hogan's husband encouraged her art interest and she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University in 2010.[16][8]

References

  1. 1 2 Bieniek, Matthew (December 24, 2014). "First lady had humble beginnings". Cumberland Times-News. Cumberland, Maryland. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Barker, Jeff (October 10, 2014). "Artist-wife Yumi Hogan strays 'outside of her normal comfort level'". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Lee, Suevon (March 3, 2015). "Meet Yumi Hogan, Maryland's New First Lady". KoreAm. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Baltic, Sarah (April 2015). "Balancing Motherhood & Career". Maryland Women's Journal: 22–23. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Westman, Jonathan (July 2017). "Yumi Hogan". Artistically Speaking. Coastal Style. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rosenwald, Michael S. (January 23, 2015). "Md. Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-born wife, Hogan, are a historic first couple". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Rosenwald, Michael S. (February 27, 2015). "Md. First Lady Yumi Hogan serves her own kimchi at Lunar New Year celebration". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  8. 1 2 "Yumi Hogan". Maryland State Archives. December 26, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  9. ↑ "First Lady Yumi Hogan Hosts Spring Student Artwork Exhibition". visitmaryland.org. Maryland Office of Tourism Development. March 24, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  10. ↑ Gates, Deborah (June 8, 2017). "Yumi Hogan, Md. first lady and artist, is guest at arts council luncheon". Delmarva Now. USA Today Network. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Maryland first lady Yumi Hogan's art featured in Ocean City exhibit". The Baltimore Sun. Associated Press. July 7, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ Welsh, Sean (March 9, 2015). "Larry Hogan's Facebook photo is cuter than yours". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
  13. ↑ Alexander, Kate S. (May 21, 2014). "Hogan looks to change Maryland as governor". Maryland Gazette. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  14. ↑ Ruark, Steve (January 21, 2014). "Larry Hogan, Kim Velez, Daniella Velez, Yumi Hogan, Jaymie Sterling, Julie Kim". The Baltimore Sun. Associated Press. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  15. ↑ Butler, Paul (2015). "One-on-One with Governor Larry Hogan". WBOC. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Bio – Yumi Hogan". Retrieved April 27, 2015.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Katie O'Malley		 First Lady of Maryland
2015–present		 Incumbent
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