Biography
Jacqueline Quimby is an environmental activist affiliated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice, organizations that oppose mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. In 2010 she participated in direct action to physically block a road used by Massey Energy for coal transport in West Virginia, as part of the anti-mountain-top-removal movement. She was convicted of trespassing, conspiracy, and obstruction, and sentenced to 60 days in jail — one of the harsher sentences imposed on a mountaintop removal activist during that period.
2010s audit verified October 12, 2026: The original October22,2009 Rainforest Action Network report, retained and read locally, names Jacqueline among eight people arrested that morning on the Kanawha County haul road. Its April28,2010 follow-up expressly connects the same October haul-road case with her April22 sentence, corroborating that existing date. Separate initial release and actual sentence-admission/release remain unresolved; no endpoint is derived from sixty days.
