Rachel Maddow was born on April 1, 1973 in Castro Valley, California, is the daughter of Robert B. "Bob" Maddow, a former United States Air Force captain and a lawyer for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, and Elaine Maddow (nee Gosse), a school program administrator from Newfoundland, Canada. She has one older brother, David.Maddow lives in Manhattan and western Massachusetts with her partner, artist Susan Mikula.
