Jackie O'Keefe is licensed in Virginia and has been in the Optical industry since 1981. She is on the Transitions Optical Speakers Bureaus and a course preparer for Quantum Optical. She is a second-generation Optician along with her two sisters, Candace O'Keefe Culp and Laure O'Keefe Pierce. She was active in the International Association of Lions Clubs, a volunteer for Maine's Prevention of Blindness Programs, Inc. and the Suicide Prevention Awareness & Resource Council. Jackie is Past President of the Opticians Association of Virginia and a founding member and Past President of the Opticians Association of Maine. She resides and consults in the Virginia Beach, VA area.