Before Donald Trump was elected president, Ivanka Trump was perhaps best known as an occasional judge on “The Apprentice” and the namesake for a line of jewelry, shoe and apparel items. She’s considerably more high-profile now.

Let's take a closer look and her life and career:

Into the Spotlight: 

Some suggested Ivanka played a quasi-first lady role in the first months of Donald Trump’s administration when her step mother, Melania Trump, continued to live in New York while her half-brother Barron finished the school year.   By March of 2017, however, Ivanka was pushed into the political spotlight when she was named a member of her father's administration. After advising her father during his first two months in office, she took this official, unpaid position in part because of ethics concerns about her access to certain classified materials without such an appointment.

Her husband, Jared Kushner, is also attracting media attention.  He has served as senior advisor to the president since inauguration day.

As First-Daughter

Few members of the Trump Administration have escaped criticism during these past tumultuous months, and Ivanka certainly has drawn detractors. But she has been portrayed more often as a calming influence on her impulsive father. Others compared her to Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who ardently defended her father, Richard Nixon, and his embattled presidential administration. "Both daughters served as important validators for their fathers," Washington Post columnist Alyssa Rosenberg noted in her April column.