Linda Jenness

Linda Jenness (born January 11, 1941)[1] is a former Socialist Workers Party (SWP) candidate for president of the United States.

Jenness, the SWP, and two congressional candidates of the party brought a lawsuit, Jenness v. Fortson, 403 U.S. 431 (1971), regarding Georgia's ballot access standards, a case an SWP supporter has said "continues to haunt the jurisprudence of ballot access law" (Raskin 2003, page 103).

In 1972, Jenness, vice-presidential nominee Andrew Pulley, and People's Party nominees Benjamin Spock and Julius Hobson wrote to Major General Bert A. David, commanding officer of Fort Dix in New Jersey, asking for permission to distribute campaign literature and hold an election-related campaign meeting.

The case made its way to the United States Supreme Court (424 U.S. 828—Greer, Commander, Fort Dix Military Reservation, et al., v. Spock et al.), which ruled against the plaintiffs.

In the April 27, 1973, issue of The Militant, she wrote that feminism "is where women are out fighting for things that are in their interest.