Baby Girl Born To Gates, Wife -- She's Jennifer Katherine
BELLEVUE - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has a new title: father.
His wife, Melinda French Gates, gave birth Friday night to an 8-pound, 6-ounce girl at Overlake Hospital Medical Center. Mother and infant were reported doing well.
They named the baby Jennifer Katharine.
It's the first child for the Gateses, who were married in a private ceremony New Year's Day, 1994, on the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
The couple met at a Microsoft dinner in New York and dated on and off for five years before becoming engaged in 1993.
As co-founder and chairman of the world's leading computer-software company, Bill Gates is one of the world's richest men. Forbes Magazine late last year estimated his wealth at $14.8 billion.
Melinda Gates has worked at Microsoft since 1987.