Rebecca Jackson Net Worth

Rebecca Jackson Net Worth is
$2 Million

Rebecca Jackson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Rebecca Jackson is a former Republican politician from Louisville, Kentucky, previously serving as the Jefferson County Judge/Executive and also running unsuccessfully for the party nomination for governor. She is the former chief executive officer of the WHAS Crusade for Children, a local charity that operates a large annual local telethon. She is now CEO of Mastery Mavens, an internet based professional development tool for teaching professionals.Jackson began her career as a teacher for children with special needs in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) in 1973. She taught children K-12 in a variety of schools. She was promoted to Learning Specialist, an administrative position. Jackson left JCPS and took a position as Director of the Parent Education Project at the University of Louisville. In 1987 Jackson founded JobCenter, Inc., a not-for-profit employment agency for persons with special needs. In this agency specializing in Supported Employment, she placed persons with special needs in businesses within the community.Jackson first won elective office in 1989, upsetting a long-time Democrat incumbent Jefferson County clerk. She was re-elected in 1993. In 1998, Jackson ran for and won the race for Judge/Executive, and served one term. She was the last person to serve in that office before city and county governments merged in 2002; the office was largely replaced by the Mayor of Louisville Metro, though technically the office still exists in a largely ceremonial capacity. Jackson had been a staunch proponent of a consolidated city-county government.Jackson represented the United States as an observer to the December 1993 elections in Russia when they adopted the new constitution and elected the first persons to the Duma (parliament). She represented the United States in Bulgaria as one of two specialists on how to establish a primary election for the many factions of the pro-democracy movement. In the following election the pro-democracy movement unseated the communist Parliament and took back the office of Prime Minister. Jackson also traveled to China on a National Association of Counties trade mission.Jackson ran for governor in 2003, losing in the primary election to Ernie Fletcher, who eventually won the seat.Jackson began work in Romania in the fall of 2003. She worked with the schools in Constanta to develop methods of teaching children with special needs in the regular classrooms as these children were mainstreamed from special schools to local schools by government legislation. She also visited and worked with the Franciscan Sisters who founded the Fundatia Surorile Clarise, an orphanage in Braila.Jackson joined the WHAS Crusade for Children in 2005, the first person from outside the WHAS-TV corporate structure to hold the post. She was instrumental in establishing an endowment for the telethon, funded by bequests from people who left the Crusade donations in their wills. This endowment is designed to fund the day-to-day operating 

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