Jo Ann Moore

I am glad to serve on the Unit 143 board as membership chairman and in other areas, as needed.  I have always appreciated the challenging, rewarding, and fun adventures of the game of bridge.  I started learning Goren bridge from my mother when I was sixteen.  Through the years, I played social bridge off and on -- mostly off!  Around the year 2000, I was introduced to duplicate and was immediately hooked.  I became a life master in 2002 and silver master at a tournament in Albuquerque in 2010.

I have a BS degree from the University of Tennessee.  I married the year I received my degree and soon began a family with four children.  Those next few years were spent with many children activities, volunteer work, and tennis.

When my youngest started school, I began a part-time job teaching in the St. Louis public schools in a program called “Springboard To Learning” where I designed classes using my skills in piano and guitar to teach American history through music.   Later, I received an Enrolled Agent  license with the IRS and worked as a tax preparer for H&R Block for 20 years.  Seven of those years, I was an office supervisor.