Center's educational therapy department. She continued to work there as a psychiatric social worker while completing her graduate work at Washington University, obtaining a Master of Social Work in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1971.
Leaving St. Louis in 1970, Jacques went to the State University of New York at Albany to head the research component of the graduate social work program. Later at the University of Cincinnati from 1973 to 1978, she headed the research component in social work, served as an interim dean for the College of Community Services, and served as acting associate graduate dean for interdisciplinary studies. Beckoned west, she moved to San Francisco in 1978 and founded an organizational and management development consulting business, helping corporations reduce stress in the workplace.
In 1980, Jacques began her studies to become an Episcopal priest. She served as lay vicar at The Good Shepherd Episcopal Mission Parish in Fort Hall, Idaho, and earned a Master of Divinity from Church Divinity School of the Pacific, in Berkeley, California, in 1984. She then moved to southwestern Montana to serve several congregations as the Episcopal priest and rector. < previous - next >