Tim Walz is Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate for the 2024 presidential election, and he has three siblings: brothers Jeff and Craig, and his sister Sandy Dietrich.
Elected as Minnesota governor in 2018 and then reelected in 2022, Tim Walz was previously a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years. Before his political career, Tim Walz served in the Army National Guard for 24 years and retired in 2005.
Prior to that, Tim Walz was a high school teacher and coach in Minnesota as well as in his home state of Nebraska, where he was raised by his two parents, Darlene and James F. Walz.
Tim Walz is set to square off against Ohio Senator JD Vance in their first vice presidential debate airing Tuesday, Oct. 1, on CBS.
Here’s what to know about his three siblings.
Tim Walz’s family
Tim Walz, 60, is one of four children of Darlene and James F. Walz. His father was a teacher and a school superintendent who died when Tim Walz was a teenager.
“Tim’s parents instilled in him the values of public service, generosity toward your neighbors, and working for the common good,” his official state biography says.
Tim Walz’s brothers and sister
Tim Walz, his brother Jeff Walz, and his sister Sandy Dietrich all graduated from Chadron State College in Nebraska, the state where they grew up. In a 2019 story on the Chadron State website, Jeff Walz is listed as living in Florida, while Dietrich is in Alliance, Nebraska.
His younger brother, Craig Walz, died tragically at 43 years old in 2016 while camping with his family at a lake in Minnesota.
Craig Walz was killed when a tree fell on his campsite during a powerful storm near Duncan Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, according to NBC Minnesota affiliate KARE. He was a chemistry, calculus and geometry teacher and previously the football coach at St. Charles High School in Minnesota.
“He is a very selfless, warm-hearted guy. He’s always got a smile on his face,” one of his former students told KARE.
“Teaching was Craig’s passion and he cared deeply about his students’ success. He would often arrive early and leave late to tutor students who wanted a little extra help,” his obituary in the Norfolk Daily News said.
“Taking what he learned growing up, he also worked to instill a sense of civic responsibility among his students. On Earth Day, he would hold a friendly competition to see which team of students could pick up the most litter during one 90-minute class period. And in 2007, when floods hit the St. Charles area, Craig — then the head football coach at St. Charles — gave his football team a choice: either go on with practice or go help the community recover and rebuild. The players chose the latter.”
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