Now retired, Jean worked for 20 years as a professional in multi-housing property management, construction service trades and pharmaceutical business management in Phoenix, Arizona. Her Christian servanthood encompasses extensive lay ministry leadership, where she has served in ministries to children, women’s groups, support groups, music ministries and outreach to prisons, nursing homes, halfway houses and street people, and as a church board trustee. Some of her poetry has previously been published in an anthology series, twice receiving Editor’s Choice Awards.