Kate L. Fick Jeancon
Kate Llwyn Fick Jeancon Marcellus (née Dixon; June 5, 1884 – September 2, 1969) was a Canadian-American court reporter who was the first female to hold that position in several courts.[1]
Early life
[edit]Jeancon was born in 1884 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of Thomas Dixon and Emma Eleanor Woodcock.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1808, Jeancon became the first female court reporter in Winnipeg. She later became the first to hold the position in Vancouver and after moving to San Diego, California in 1914, the first in the San Diego Superior Courts.[1]
She was a member of the San Diego Business & Professional Women's Club.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Jeancon married John Law Perkins in Canada in 1902.[2] They had one son, Dr. Francis Jackson Perkins. She married Otto Lemcke Jeancon (brother of anthropologist Jean Allard Jeancon), in 1921 in California. He died four years later.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. p. 57. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Manitoba, Marriage Index, 1881–1937
- ^ U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934