The first full-time black female faculty member in Duke's history, Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, died Jan. 28 in Stillwell, Kan. Jackson was an associate professor of medical sociology at the Duke University Medical Center from 1968 until her retirement in 1998. A national expert on ethnogerontology and racism, Jackson founded the National Caucus of Aged Blacks in 1970 and was the first African American to edit a journal of the American Sociological Association.
Jackson earned her doctorate from Duke after receiving undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin. She is survived by her daughter, Viola Carter; grandsons Giamo and Carlo Carter; twin sister Jeanne Pen; cousins Brenda Hill, Richard Crosby and Leonard Crosby and adopted son Antonio Henson and his two daughters.
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