Jean Kirkpatrick was an American sociologist, researcher, and visionary leader whose work fundamentally reshaped addiction recovery for women. Drawing from both her academic expertise and her lived experience with alcoholism, she founded Women for Sobriety in 1975., establishing one of the first gender responsive recovery programs in the world.
- Occupation
- sociologist, writer
- Born
- 1926
- Died
- June 19, 2000
