Her career took her to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and she served on numerous boards in the U.S. At Sandia National Laboratories Dr. Jackson was manager of the International Chemical Threat Reduction Department and a Franklin Fellow. She spent two years as a tribal government liaison where she represented Sandia at local, state, and national Native events. Also, at Sandia she served as deputy director of the International Security Center (2004–2006) and department manager for Chemical and Biological Sensing, Imaging and Analysis (2002–2004). In addition, she was an associate research professor at the University of New Mexico, and at the State Department Dr. Jackson worked on the Chemical Security Engagement Program.
Her professional memberships included the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists and the Industrial and Chemical Engineering, Business Development and Management, and Colloid and Surface Chemistry divisions of the ACS. Dr. Jackson was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which chose her as recipient of the 2012 Award for Science Diplomacy for her outstanding contributions.
We at AISES esteemed Dr. Jackson and valued her commitment and enduring contributions to the entire organization. We will miss her dynamic leadership, influence, and friendship. Please keep her husband, James Miller, their sons, Christopher and Jackson, her brother Peter, and her father Norman, in your thoughts at this difficult time.
A memorial service will be held in her honor at French Funerals and Cremations, 7121 Wyoming Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, on March 1, 2022, at 4:00 p.m.
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