Jacquelyn Gist

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 13 dated events in the chronology →

1. December 5, 1989 Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in for a second term as mayor of Carrboro Town clerk Sarah C. Williamson administered the oath to Mayor-elect Kinnaird and to aldermen-elect Hilliard Caldwell and Tom Gurganus after the board approved the abstract of votes from the November 7, 1989 election. Jacquelyn Gist was sworn in as an alderman at the same meeting. People: Hilliard Caldwell, Jacquelyn GistSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 5, 1989
2. December 5, 1989 Jacquelyn Gist is sworn in as a Carrboro alderman Robin Lackey administered the oath of office to alderman-elect Jacquelyn Gist at the Board of Aldermen meeting of December 5, 1989. The board had approved the abstract of votes cast at the November 7, 1989 election earlier in the same meeting, at which Eleanor Kinnaird was also sworn in as mayor. People: Ellie KinnairdSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 5, 1989
3. December 18, 1990 Carrboro adds sexual orientation to its equal employment opportunity policy The Board of Aldermen unanimously amended the town's personnel ordinance to add sexual orientation to the characteristics protected in its merit principle and equal employment opportunity policy. On November 13, 1990 the Board had written a sexual orientation nondiscrimination clause into a planning grant agreement with the City of Durham and asked for the code amendment to be scheduled. People: Jacquelyn GistTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 18, 1990
4. 1993–1998 Hank Anderson serves on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen Anderson was elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in 1993 and re-elected in 1997, and the board chose him as mayor pro tem in 1994 and again in 1997. He served until his death in October 1998. People: Mike Nelson, Jacquelyn GistSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 19, 1998, p. 1 (Alderman Loses Cancer Battle)
5. September 13, 1994 Carrboro Board of Aldermen adopts a domestic partnership registry The Board voted unanimously to amend the Town Code so that statements of domestic partnership could be filed with the Town Clerk, set the effective date at October 11, 1994, added a $40 registration fee, and extended the financial disclosure required of elected officials to cover their domestic partners. The Board took no action on a third proposal to extend health insurance benefits to domestic partners of town employees. People: Mike Nelson, Jacquelyn Gist, Ellie KinnairdTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, September 13, 1994
6. June 6, 1995 Carrboro votes to pay for domestic partner coverage in its employee health plan Setting town employee health insurance for fiscal 1995-96, the Board of Aldermen voted that the town would bear any expense of adding coverage for domestic partners to its Kaiser plan, after asking staff on May 23 to find out why the insurer Healthsource did not offer such coverage. The vote was six to one, with Michael Nelson opposed. People: Mike Nelson, Jacquelyn Gist, Ellie KinnairdTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, June 6, 1995
7. November 4, 1997 Diana McDuffee leads the vote for Carrboro aldermen Running for the first time as an incumbent after her 1995 appointment, McDuffee led seven candidates with 1,755 votes. Fellow incumbents Jacquelyn Gist and Hank Anderson were also re-elected, and Allen Spalt was the only newcomer. People: Jacquelyn Gist, Hank AndersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 5, 1997, p. 3
8. June 1998 Carrboro renames its community park for Hank Anderson The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to rename Carrboro Community Park on N.C. 54 for Alderman Henry "Hank" Anderson III, on a motion by Alderman Jacquelyn Gist. The 55-acre park is one of the town's largest. People: Jacquelyn GistSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Our Roots Run Deep, Black History in Carrboro
9. May 16, 2006 Carrboro aldermen bar police arrests based solely on civil immigration violations The Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted Resolution No. 123/2005-06, making it police policy not to arrest or take into custody anyone solely because they have or may have committed a civil immigration violation. The board had asked the town attorney to research the question on April 18, 2006. People: Mark Chilton, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Joal Hall Broun, Alex ZaffronTown of Carrboro (Mount Holyoke IDA repository copy): Board of Aldermen minutes, May 16, 2006
10. December 3, 2013 Lydia Lavelle takes office as Carrboro mayor, the first openly lesbian mayor in North Carolina Lydia Lavelle, who ran unopposed for mayor in the fall 2013 election, was sworn in on December 3, 2013 as North Carolina's first openly lesbian mayor. Aldermen Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade and Jacquelyn Gist were sworn in for new terms at the same meeting. People: Lydia Lavelle, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy SladeChapelboro: Carrboro Celebrates NC's 1st Openly-Lesbian Mayor
11. January 12, 2021 Carrboro Town Council adopts a nondiscrimination ordinance covering sexual orientation and gender identity Six weeks after the state's moratorium on local employment and public accommodation ordinances expired on December 1, 2020, the Council unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 10/20-21, adding to Chapter 8 of the Town Code a ban on discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation that covers sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. The ordinance took effect on adoption and cited the town's March 26, 2016 pledge to seek such protections. People: Lydia Lavelle, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade, Barbara Foushee, Damon SeilsTown of Carrboro: Town Council minutes, January 12, 2021
12. August 9, 2021 Carrboro unveils a truth plaque naming Green Cordal and Benjamin Craig The Town of Carrboro unveiled its second truth plaque at the former freedmen's school site on North Merritt Mill Road, next to St. Paul AME Church. The text reads that Green Cordal and Benjamin Craig, freed from bondage, purchased this land for a Freedman School and church, and that with funds from the Society of Friends they built a schoolhouse that served hundreds of free Black children and adults. People: Benjamin Craig, Jacquelyn GistSearch the index · Chapelboro.com: Second 'Truth Plaque' Unveiled at Former Freedmen's School in Carrboro