ABOUT MAGGIE
Home Address:
1801 Rolling Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27403
Phone (336) 275-4762
Birth date:
October 22, 1934, Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke County)
Married to:
Charles Oliver Jeffus (Deceased 7/4/83)
Remarried 12/29/91 to Ted J. Thompson
Children:
Two Children
Five Grandchildren
Occupation:
NC State Representative, 27th District: 1991-92;
89th District: 1993-94, 1997-98, 1999-00, 2001-02.
59th District 2003-to present.
Retired Classroom Teacher, 2/1/97
Education:
BA – Education, Guilford College, 1965
M.Ed. – Education, UNC-G, 1970
Selected for Phase I Leadership Training - Smith Richardson Foundation
Attended Model Developmental Reading School – Selected as a Satellite Teacher
Honors:
Greensboro Teacher of the Year 1972-73
Beta Sigma Phi (Chapter) Woman of the Year, 1976-77
Beta Sigma Phi Outstanding Woman of the Year, 1981-82
Legislator of the Year Award, NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault, 1998
Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 1997-98
NC Association Personnel Services, 1998 Distinguished Legislator of the Year Award
NC Public Libraries Directors’ Eleanor Swaim District Service Award, 2000
NC Association of Educators President’s Award – 2004
Greensboro Regional Realtors Association Public Service Award, 2005
General Federation of Women’s Club Woman of Achievement Award, 2006
NC School Psychology Association Public Policy Award, 2006
NCAE Friend of Education Award, 2006
NCAE – One of Four Legislators given the A+ Award, 2009
Most Recent Civic/Community:
Member Starmount Presbyterian Church for 50+ years
Member Euterpe Club of Greensboro
Life Member Beta Sigma Phi
Member League of Women Voters
Member Rebekah’s Ladies’ Division of Odd Fellows
Fun Fourth Festival Advisory Board
Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro, Board Member, 2002-06
NC Humanities Council Advisory Board Member, 1998-2007
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children, Board Member, 1999-2007
UNC-G Musical Arts Guild, Board Member, 1995-2004
Raleigh Opera Association, Advisory Board Member, 2004-2007
Legislative 2009-10 Committees:
Appropriations, Chair
Education
Education, Subcommittee on Pre-school, Elementary and Secondary Education, Vice-Chair
Financial Institutions
Judiciary III
Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee
Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations;
House Chair of the Subcommittee on Education/Health & Human Services
Education Commission of the States (National)
Board of Awards
National Conference of State Legislatures, Standing Committee on Education
Teacher Working Conditions Survey Advisory Committee
