Yumi Hogan (1959 -) becomes the first Korean American (South Asian) First Lady in Maryland and the U.S. when Lawrence (Larry) Hogan (1956 -) is sworn in as the 62nd Governor.
The youngest of eight children born and raised on a chicken farm in rural South Korea, Yumi Park came to the U.S. with her first husband in her twenties.
After a divorce, she moved with her three daughters to Howard County, Maryland, in 1992, becoming a US citizen in 1994. She met Larry Hogan at a Columbia art show in 2001 and married the future governor in 2004.
She graduated from MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in 2008 and is well known for her paintings, abstract landscapes of Korea and Maryland using traditional Korean Sumi ink on Hanji paper.
Hogan has taught at MICA and, inspired by Governor Hogan’s cancer diagnosis and recovery, launched an art therapy program at the University of Maryland Childrens’ Hospital as First Lady in 2017.
