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Early Life

1 Jennie Alexander was a transgender woman. She spent her early childhood in Baltimore, Maryland learning to play the piano and later became a Jazz musician. She was introduced to woodworking at the Baltimore polytechnic institute High School and would later go on to open up her own home shop in 1960.

Her mother grew up in Quincy Massachusetts and was part of the educational sloyd system. Because of this Jennie was always encouraged to explore woodworking and learning through doing.

Her father was a lawyer, and Jennie also attended law school at the university of Maryland, becoming a divorce lawyer for a period of her life before embracing greenwoodworking.

Later Life

1 Her wife Joyce died in 1996. Jennie has three daughters. In 2007, at the age of 77 and after 32 years of Alcoholics Anonymous Jennie transitioned from male to female.

Jennie Alexander has five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and one of her sons was named after her old name, John D. Alexander III.

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