Fall 2001


   

  


Jeanette Laws

Ms. Laws was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Even as a child she was a "people person" with instilled family values. She spent much of her childhood and young adulthood with older people.

Her career has always been people-oriented through her involvement in a hospital, Pentagon JAG, Illinois Guardianship and the Advocacy Commission (mentally challenged). She has taken a leave of these positions to spend two years giving home care to terminally ill seniors.

Ms. Laws has organized youth groups in Boston, Providence; Queens, NY; Washington, DC; and Champaign, IL. She has also worked with inmates in Illinois state and federal prisons on weekends for 12 years, and is presently serving with Storefront School (alternative high school for at-risk teens ages 16-21).

Jeanette Laws is from a family of seven children. Her mother and father are deceased, but they left a legacy that has prepared her for her most prestigious career - her role as a Mother!! Ms. Laws has four children: three adopted children and one foster (hopefully adopted) child.

"My love of people has brought me to where I am today…the GREATEST INVESTMENT I EVER MADE!!!"


©2001-02 Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
famcom@mtsu.edu