Jeanne Moirod (1905, near Saint-Amour—1997) was a French Resistance member, principal liaison agent of Colonel Henri Romans-Petit's northern group, and mayor of Oyonnax from March to May 1953.
Biography She was a glassmaker, assistant to the Mayor of Oyonnax and a Trotskyist. Her house was the improvised hub of the Resistance in Jura; from this hub, newspapers were reproduced, Moirod found shelters and caches for the combatants and weapons in the mountains and she helped transport the guerrillas there. With her brother-in-law, Gabriel Jeanjacquot, Moirod helped to disseminate the journal, Bir-Hakeim, by journalist André Jacquelin.
In March 1953, she was elected mayor of Oyonnax, but remained in that position for just two months as elections were held on 26 April and 3 May 1953.
Awards There is a Jeanne-Moirod square in Oyonnax. Jeanne Moirod is one of the six women who received the Resistance Medal. She is one of the few women who hold the Médaille militaire.
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