Tom, Jean Marion (1922 - )

Summary

Jean Tom graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Master of Science (MSc) degree. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia, 26 January 1993, for service to the welfare of women in rural and remote Australia through the Country Women's Association.

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Chronology

1944 - 1946

Career position - Worked in the School of Physiology, University of Melbourne

1977 - 1979

Career position - Member of the Status of Women Committee in Victoria

1979 - 1981

Career position - Member of the Freedom From Hunger Committee

1979 - 1981

Career position - Member of the Fairlea Women's Prison Council in Victoria

1979 - 1981

Career position - State President of the Country Women's Association Victoria

1982 - 1987

Career position - Honorary State Treasurer, Country Women's Association Victoria

1982 - 2001

Career position - Member of Honour of the Country Women's Association Victoria

1983 - 1988

Career position - Member of the Victorian Women's Consultative Council

1984 - 1985

Career position - Member of the Planning Committee of the 150th Anniversary of White Settlement in Victoria

1985 - 1993

Career position - Director and Trustee of the Victorian Women's Trust

1988 - 1991

Career position - National President of the Country Women's Association Australia

1990 - 1993

Career position - Member of the National Women's Consultative Council

1993

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1993 - 1994

Career position - Member of the organising committee of the International Conference on Women in Agriculture

1993 - 1997

Career position - Member of the Active for Life Cancer and Heart Offensive Consultative Council

1999

Award - ANZAC of the Year Award, Returned Services League (RSL)

1999 - 2000

Career position - Member of Diversity Victoria Equal Opportunity Commission

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

• 'Tom, Jean Marion (1922-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475849. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details