Cruzs Wife Heidi to Take Unpaid Leave From Goldman Sachs

Heidi Cruzs leave will last the duration of her husband's presidential campaign.

(Bloomberg) — Heidi Cruz, a managing director at Goldman Sachs Group in Houston, has taken an unpaid leave from her private wealth-management job to help with her husbands campaign for the U.S. presidency, a person familiar with the matter said.

Ted Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas, said on Twitter early Monday morning that he plans to run for president in the 2016 election. Heidi Cruzs leave will last the duration of the campaign, said the person, who asked not to be identified speaking about Cruzs employment.

Heidi Cruz, a Harvard Business School graduate who worked in President George W. Bushs administration, joined Goldman Sachs in 2005 and was promoted to managing director, the firms second-highest rank, in 2012. She serves as regional head of the Houston office in the private wealth-management unit, which serves individuals and families who have on average more than $40 million with the firm.

Heidi Cruz met her husband in Austin, Texas, in 2000, when both were policy aides on the Bush campaign, according to a New York Times profile in 2013. Her employment at Goldman Sachs became a political topic when Richard Durbin, a Democratic senator from Illinois, tried to push Ted Cruz, who has been critical of President Barack Obamas health-care policies, into admitting he was on his wifes Goldman Sachs health insurance plan, the Times reported.