1. Her father was a pastor. Lucy Kibaki was born in Mukwereini to Reverend John Kagai and Rose Nyanchomba.
2. She is an alumnus of Alliance Girls High School. Her public profile as may not have provided the sharp mind and cool demeanour usually associated with ladies from the prestigious school but she did attend the school and left with quite distinction.
3. She is a teacher by profession. Her strictness is perhaps the one thing that lend itself to her later career. She was no nonsense and shot straight.
4. At the height of her career she was the Principal of a teachers training college in Kiambu becoming one of the first African tutors in a college.
5. She married Kibaki when she was 22. Lucy Kibaki was born in 1940, she met Kibaki in 1960 and after a courtship period of 2 years the couple married.
