Jeanne Barnett (May 28, 1930 – October 1, 2003) was an American activist and a California state employment official.
She was active in the United Methodist Church for the inclusion of LGBT members and clergy, and her 1999 "holy union ceremony" in Sacramento was a well-publicized protest against denominational policies.
She graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1952, where she played varsity basketball and earned a bachelor's degree in music.
[1] Barnett was active in United Methodist Church work at the local, regional, and national levels.
[2] In 1999, Barnett and her longtime partner Ellie Charlton were married in a union ceremony at the Sacramento Convention Center,[3][4] with more than a hundred Methodist ministers officiating together, as a show of "ecclesiastical disobedience"[5] against the denomination's ban on ordained clergy performing same-sex weddings.