After describing his grandmother, Vera Ford, as a "white woman passing as black", many were left asking about Harold Ford Jr's ethnicity. Mother Dorothy Bowles Ford Siblings Jake Ford, Sir Isaac Ford; half-siblings Andrew and Ava Relationship status Married Spouse Emily Threlkeld (married 2008) Children Georgia Walker Ford, Harold Eugene Ford III Education University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1992); University of Michigan Law School (JD, 1996) Profession Banking executive, author, political commentator, former U.S. congressman Harold Ford Jr's parents, Harold Ford Sr. and Dorothy Bowles Ford, are of mixed ethnicity.