Jean Carol McElderry Moorhead Duffy (née Macpherson; born December 17, 1938) is a former lobbyist[2] and politician from California and a member of the Democratic Party.
[3] Moorhead was born Jean Carol Macpherson in Oakland, California, on December 17, 1938.
She worked as a public health nurse for Santa Clara County Health Department, then part-time at a clinic for migrant farm workers in southern Santa Clara County, California.
[4] A lobbyist for the California Nurses Association (1976-78),[5] Moorhead was first elected to the California State Assembly in 1978, representing the 5th district in the Sacramento suburbs,[6] and won easy reelection in 1980 (against Democratic Sacramento County Supervisor Ted Sheedy).
[7] On February 19, 1981, in the middle of her second term, Moorhead changed her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.