Meet the nominee to serve as ambassador to Japan. You may already be familiar with her: brown hair, lawyer, mother of three, and, oh right, daughter of President John F. Kennedy. On Wednesday, the dynastic doyenne was nominated by President Barack Obama to the ambassadorship, and while it's yet to be seen if she'll be confirmed for the position, Kennedy is a high-profile pick and longtime supporter of the president. Here, we take a look back at Caroline Kennedy’s life in photos, starting with an early family portrait with her mother, Jackie, and father, John.
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A 2-week-old Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is baptized and blessed under the gaze of her parents by Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1957.
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With a mischievous look in her eye, Caroline plays a game of peek-a-boo in her crib with her dad, then-Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy.
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Caroline was carefree in February 1961, just a month after her father was inaugurated to the highest office. Here, she runs on a lawn during a family vacation in Palm Beach, Florida.
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First lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy wasn’t too busy to visit her daughter at school in May 1962.
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A grinning Caroline Kennedy hams it up for the camera as she walks in front of her father, who seems thoroughly preoccupied, in 1963.
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In a scene that would soon become iconic, Caroline and her brother, John Jr., flank their mother and two uncles at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy on November 25, 1963, in Washington, D.C. He was assassinated three days earlier in Dallas.
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Happier days for the Kennedys: here, the first family plays with a half dozen dogs on the patio of their Squaw Island House in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1963.
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It's no small task, but Caroline manages to smash a bottle of Champagne on the prow of the aircraft carrier named for her father with appropriate vigor in 1967.
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A less-than-enthused, 10-year-old Caroline stands next to the newly minted Mr. and Mrs. Aristotle Onassis on their wedding day on Onassis’s private island.
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Caroline and John take to the slopes on a sled in Central Park.
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In 1977, Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., with their cousin Maria Shriver, attend the sixth annual Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament at Flushing Meadows Park in New York City.
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Following a long line of Kennedys, Caroline Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1980. She would go on to get an additional degree from Columbia Law School.
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Caroline smiles and waves as her uncle Ted Kennedy walks her down the aisle at her wedding to Edwin Schlossberg on July 19, 1986. The couple has three children.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy watch as the casket of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is placed on a hearse at her funeral in New York in 1994. Her brother died just five years later in an airplane accident.
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Kennedy hasn't shied away from political and public advocacy. In 2000, she addressed the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. She's a regular attendee and speaker at party conventions.
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The women of two dynastic political families unite. First lady Laura Bush speaks next to Kennedy during NBC’s Meet the Press in 2003.
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Barack Obama has counted on Kennedy for support since the early days of his 2008 campaign. She even wrote a piece during the primaries for The New York Times, “A President Like My Father.” Here, the pair smile and address the crowd during an endorsement rally for his campaign at American University in 2008.
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Kennedy speaks at the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony at the Kennedy Library in Boston earlier this year. If she's confirmed by the Senate, Kennedy will be the first female ambassador to Japan.
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