First Person Project, Jill Clement and Louis Boyd by RussellLibraryOralHistory published on 2014-08-11T15:59:44Z Louis Boyd interviews Jill Clement. Clement talks about her early life in Massachusetts and her decision to attend Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga., where she met her husband, Charles Clement (see FPP-0020). Clement discusses her decades of involvement with the Presbyterian Church, where she advocated for more leadership roles for women and became of the of the first female deacons and elders in the church. Clement briefly touches on her time as a missionary in Everett, Ky.--deep in the heart of coal-mining country--where she attended a church with a congregation that handled snakes. FPP-0019, Jill Clement interviewed by Louis Boyd, September 13, 2013, Athens, Ga. This interview is part of the First Person Project, archived at the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries. To learn more about the First Person Project and browse other interviews, see bit.ly/1iLKjG0 Genre oral history
