section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  Duffy is a practicing Catholic. He is married to Rachel Campos-Duffy, a fellow alumna of The Real World and Fox News personality, whom he met when they were co-stars on Road Rules: All Stars. They lived in Ashland, Wisconsin, when Duffy was District Attorney for Ashland County. In late 2011, they moved to Weston so that Duffy would be closer to Central Wisconsin Airport for his commute to Washington, D.C., where he spent three or four days a week.
  
  As of August 2019, Duffy and his wife had eight children, and were expecting their ninth that October. On August 26, 2019, Duffy announced that because he and his wife learned that their ninth child would experience health complications, including a heart condition, he was resigning from Congress, effective September 23. Their daughter, Valentina, was born on October 1, with Down syndrome.
  
  In August 2021, Duffy purchased a home in Mendham Township, New Jersey, where he, his wife, and their children currently reside. He is the first New Jersey resident to serve in a presidential cabinet since Lisa P. Jackson, an East Windsor Township resident who was the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the first presidency of Barack Obama.
  
  Duffy's nephew, Erik Johnson, is an American ice hockey defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche.
  
  Duffy is a practicing Catholic. He is married to Rachel Campos-Duffy, a fellow alumna of The Real World and Fox News personality, whom he met when they were co-stars on Road Rules: All Stars. They lived in Ashland, Wisconsin, when Duffy was District Attorney for Ashland County. In late 2011, they moved to Weston so that Duffy would be closer to Central Wisconsin Airport for his commute to Washington, D.C., where he spent three or four days a week.
  
  As of August 2019, Duffy and his wife had eight children, and were expecting their ninth that October. On August 26, 2019, Duffy announced that because he and his wife learned that their ninth child would experience health complications, including a heart condition, he was resigning from Congress, effective September 23. Their daughter, Valentina, was born on October 1, with Down syndrome.
  
  In August 2021, Duffy purchased a home in Mendham Township, New Jersey, where he, his wife, and their children currently reside. He is the first New Jersey resident to serve in a presidential cabinet since Lisa P. Jackson, an East Windsor Township resident who was the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the first presidency of Barack Obama.
  
  Duffy's nephew, Erik Johnson, is an American ice hockey defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche.