Jean BEADLE
Also known as: Jean (Jane) Miller
Born: 1/1/1868
Died: 22/5/1942
Special Achievements:1898 - Founding member of the first Labour Women's Association in Australia
1905 - Founding member of the first Western Australian Women's Political and Social Crusade (later the Women's Labor League) at Fremantle.
1906 - 1911 - Founding president of the Goldfields Women's Labor League.
1912 - Joint delegate from the Labour Women's Club to attend the first Labour Women's Conference in Perth.
1920 - Was among the first women to take the oath for the Perth Magisterial District.
Additional Information:Feminist, Social worker and Labour party member
1892 - Organized a Victorian relief committee for the Broken Hill strikers
1898 - 1901 Vice-president of Women's Political and Social Crusade
1915 - 1929 Honorary justice on the Children's Court Bench
1919 - 1942 Justice of the Peace
1921 - 1942 Secretary of the King Edward Memorial Hospital Advisory Board
1927 - Presided over the second Labor Women's conference
1930 - 1935 - President of the Perth Women's Branch of the Australian Labor Party
1930 - 1938 President of the Women Justices' Association
1931 - Invited by the Labor Women's Organisation to stand for Labor pre-selection for the Senate (unsuccessful)
Resources
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Image - Jean (Jane) Beadle
Photographer: unknown
JS Battye Library of West Australian History
