Jessie Elizabeth Moore, born 1871 in Panola County, Indian Territory in the Chickasaw Nation, in what is now southeastern Oklahoma, is the first Native American woman to hold state office in Oklahoma.
She was appointed Deputy Supreme Court Clerk in Oklahoma City in 1914, and admitted to the bar in 1923. In 1924, she was appointed Assistant Commission of Charities and Corrections for Oklahoma. During the Great Depression, she served as director of the Women's Division of Emergency Relief in Oklahoma County.
She was elected to serve as a law clerk of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and Criminal Court of Appeals in 1926.
She passed away in 1956.
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