She also serves as the Chairperson of the Women's League in the National Resistance Movement (NRM), the ruling political party in Uganda.
[1] The fourth of eleven children, she was born in Rukungiri District on 18 August 1954 and is the daughter of Canon Gereshomu and Evalina Ruhindi.
[2] Jacqueline Mbabazi attended several primary schools in Kabale District, where her father worked for the Church of Uganda.
During the early 1980s, she continued her education in Sweden by obtaining the Diploma in the Swedish Language and the degree of Master of Sciences (MSc) in Biotechnology.
In 1999, she left the Uganda Revenue Authority, to form, along with others, the Agency for National Development, a non-governmental organisation to help youth and women.