Jenni was born in the UK and migrated to Australia with her mother as a ‘ten-pound Pom” in 1963. Highlights from a public sector career spanning more than forty years include Manager of Aussales, the Government’s disposal arm; Team Leader of a group providing IT services to the electorate offices of Senators and Members; Assistant Commissioner Information Technology at the Australian Electoral Commission and State Manager for Victoria responsible for delivering the Federal election in that State. On her retirement in 2013, Jenni was appointed to the Board of Palliative Care ACT. She has also written her first novel entitled A Good Girl… Seldom published by Ginninderra Press in 2020.