Meet Jenny Puckett! Jenny is an Infectious Diseases Physician Assistant at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. She is married to Edward and the couple has three children.
Edward grew up in Gainesville and he and Jenny moved back to Gainesville, from Augusta, three years ago to live closer to family. Their children are Fifth (7), Sophie (6), and Fields (4) and they all attend Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy.
We want to thank Jenny for recently spending time with us and telling us more about her life and love of Hall County.
Question: What inspired you or led you to your current career?
Answer: “My mom. We are both peacemakers and caregivers and I should’ve known I was meant to follow in her footsteps! She was a nurse before staying home with me and my brothers. She started nursing again when I was in junior high and eventually started graduate school the same year I left for college. She was a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner for another 20 years. I was pre-law in Undergrad at N.C. State, but decided quickly after graduation I wasn’t 100% sold on law school. One of my first jobs was fundraising for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation which is when I decided I wanted to work in medicine. I went back to undergrad for a year and half to take all the needed science classes, then started PA school in 2008.”
Q: What is your favorite restaurant in Hall County, and what do you love there?
Answer: “2 Dog.”
Q: How long have you lived or worked in Hall County?
A: “We moved to Gainesville New Years Eve 2017 and I started working at NGMC in January 2018.”
Q: What is your favorite childhood memory?
A: “Summers at my Grandparents’ farm in North Carolina.”
Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be and why?
A: “Italy.”
Q: What is the first movie you remember seeing in a theater?
A: “I have no idea, ‘Titanic’ maybe?”
Q: What advice would you give a crowd of people?
A: “Scatter!”
Q: What is something on your bucket list?
A: “Spend a summer in Italy.”
Q: What is your favorite music/ three bands you would like to see (dead or alive)?
A: “I love it all- if I had to choose, Rock. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, Tina Turner.”
Q: What is your favorite thing about Hall County?
A: “The City parks and Lake Lanier.”
Q: Where do you see yourself in five or 10 years?
A: “Creating, taking care of people in our community, traveling!”
Q: What is something interesting that most people don’t know about you?
A: “I play piano by ear!”
Q: What three words mean “Home” to you?
A: “Family, Love, Contentment.”
Q: If you were cast into a major motion picture and had your choice of anyone to be your co-star, who would you choose?
A: “Zooey Deschanel.”
Q: If you had a full-time staff member that was fully paid for, who would you choose?
A: “A scribe to write all my notes at the hospital.”
