Personal Background
- CJ was 38 years old in 1999 [1.1 script only] and her full name is Claudia Jean [1.9].
- CJ lives close enough to the White House to walk there [2.20]. Even at that short distance, she has been known to get lost on her way to work while suffering from stress-induced insomnia [2.4].
- CJ is Catholic [1.5].
- She is six feet tall [1.5] (or maybe 5' 11" [3.20]), has what Josh calls a great body [1.15], has sensitive alabaster skin, and favors Clinique City Block Oil-Free Face Protector [1.16].
- CJ's family:
- There is a picture on her desk of a young girl and two young boys, possibly of CJ and her brothers [1.14].
- Both CJ's and Toby's fathers were children of immigrants, and they both needed the GI Bill [3.12].
- Although her father is a schoolteacher in Ohio [3.11], CJ's family gathered in Napa for his 70th birthday celebration [2.17] CJ says she doesn't talk to her dad enough [2.12], and that he's starting to forget things [3.12]. She signs her letters to her father with the name "Claudia" [2.12].
- CJ's father, Tal Cregg, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Although CJ offered to give up her job and move home, he doesn't like accepting help. His estranged wife -- CJ's stepmother and former English teacher, Molly -- apparently worked up the courage to move home and care for him [4.13].
- CJ's mother is dead [4.13].
- Because CJ's brothers are golf crazies, she has a niece named Hogan [3.20].
- CJ's friends and lovers:
- CJ was once dumped by an unnamed ex-boyfriend after she accidentally drove his Porsche into a pond [1.18].
- In college, CJ lived with a man named Ben for six months [5.5]; they met in Principles of Sociology at Berkeley [5.14].
- CJ and Toby were friends before they went to work on the Bartlet campaign together [2.2]. Although she is admittedly crazy about the roundness of his head [4.6], CJ knows better than to stick her face in Toby's personal life. Except for sport [4.7].
- According to Josh, the president thinks of CJ like a daughter [1.21]. According to Jed Bartlet himself, CJ is part of his family [3.19].
- She has a crush on White House correspondent Danny Concanon [1.7], which is okay, considering he's admitted to having a crush on her [1.10]. In fact, she has occasionally been known to grab Danny and kiss him [1.12]. The President, though, has made it clear that nothing can happen while they have their current jobs [2.6].
- While in Dayton, OH, for her high school reunion -- at which she's supposed to give a speech called "The Promise of a Generation" -- CJ runs into an old classmate, Marco Arlens. Marco has outgrown his mohawk days, and is now a horologist who offers her a brief respite [4.13].
- Growing up, CJ's whole family would cram into the bathroom in the garage during tornado warnings [5.6].
- CJ admits that she's been wondering for three years what could've been with Danny Concannon, but claims she was almost over him until he showed back up with his "scruffy face and [his] jokes and [his] incredible talent" [4.14].
- She is friends with stand-up comedian Corey Sykes [2.12].
- CJ had a one-night stand with John Hoynes ten years ago, and there is no night in her life that she regrets more than that one [5.15].
