Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a Merrill Lynch financial adviser.[1][2] Scott was raised in Pennsylvania and is the descendant of three generations of bank presidents.[3][4] Her mother, Andrea (née Finlay), is a homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.[5] Andrea, though American, spent the first ten years of her life in Singapore, before settling in Texas; her own father was an oil rig engineer who worked throughout Southeast Asia.[4] Swift's younger brother, Austin, is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.[6] She and her brother were raised in the Presbyterian faith and attended bible school.[7][8]