Mayor Jacqueline (Jackie) vdH Sergent, MPH, RD, LDN

Jackie Sergent took office as Mayor in December 2011 after serving the City of Oxford as a Commissioner for 2 years.   Her responsibilities included public works and safety, land use management, recreation, and economic development.  She is proud of  her efforts to strengthen design guidelines while amending zoning restrictions to accommodate development, incorporate a splash park into a neighborhood development project, and represent local greenway priorities to state and federal legislators since coming to office.  Sergent earned a BA in French from Duke University (cum laude 1979) and an MPH in Nutrition from the UNC School of Public Health (1982). 

Sergent is the Health Promotion Coordinator and Health Education Supervisor for the Granville-Vance District Health Department in North Carolina.  While her primary focus is to create sustainable policy and environmental change that encourages healthy behaviors in community systems using minimal resources, recent work also includes drop-out and teen pregnancy prevention, gang-assessment and offender projects and a Boys and Girls Club initiative.  Principal author of 3 comprehensive community health assessments and a county greenway master plan, she works with diverse community stakeholders to determine and accomplish goals.  Master plan linked greenway efforts have received recognition from the North Carolina Public Health Association and NC Land Trust Council.  Before her work in Health Promotion/Health Education, Sergent directed the nutrition program for the district during which the program garnered several state awards and she was named Nutritionist of the Year.

Sergent is a member of the North Carolina and American Dietetic Associations and has served on local Greenway, Domestic Violence, Emergency Food/Shelter, and Human Relations boards.  She has also worked on the NC 2020 Health Objectives, Oxford's Vision Plan, and was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation.