Jacqulyn Longacre

Jacqulyn C. Longacre
Born	1932 (age 84–85) Robeline, Louisiana
Alma mater	Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma
Occupation	social work
Known for	former director of Planned Parenthood of Tulsa

Jacqulyn "Jackie" Longacre is the former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the eighteen years she was the director of the Tulsa campus, they grew from serving 1,600 patients to serving over 10,000 patients in a single year and were awarded the Fairchild Award, the highest award available for being a quality service affiliate. Longacre played a vital part in establishing Reproductive Services in Tulsa as well as Tulsa County Perinatal Coalition. In 1993, she was inducted in the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame.

Jackie Longacre was born in Robeline, Louisiana but was raised primarily in Wewoka, Oklahoma. Her family moved around several times because of her father's work in the oilfield. She attended several rural schools during her childhood that played a key role in her early character development. Eventually, Longacre graduated from Wewoka High School. Longacre continued her education at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University) due to a scholarship she received through the Extension Service. While in college she held several jobs, including running the dorm elevator, working in the kitchen, and finally in the Dean of the Graduate School's office. She majored in accounting and economics and completed her degrees in four years.

Longacre applied for a job as an oil company accountant in Venezuela, but was denied as a single woman. She took a caseworker exam and went to work for Seminole County Department of Welfare, moving in 1957, to the Department of Human Services in Tulsa County. While working on her graduate degree at the University of Oklahoma, Longacre was employed in the Social Work Department of Griffin Memorial Hospital in Norman. After graduating with her master's degree, Longacre moved to Tulsa, working at the Child Welfare Division of the Department of Human Services and later took over the Child Protective Unit in Tulsa County. In 1969, Longacre became the Director of Planned Parenthood in Tulsa, where she worked for eighteen years. During her tenure, Tulsa’s Planned Parenthood grew from serving 1,600 patients to serving over 10,000 patients in a single year and was awarded the Fairchild Award, the highest award available for quality service in the industry. Longacre was a key figure in the development of reproductive health services for Tulsa and helped establish the Tulsa County Perinatal Coalition, which was founded in 1987 to address a crisis occurring in women's health at that time—lack of services for low-income women, high risk and high infant mortality due to inadequate health care, and inadequate education. She moved to Dallas for a short period of time, working with the Planned Parenthood located there.

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