Jessica Marie Cole was born September 4, 1977 at Saginaw General Hospital in Saginaw, Michigan. Her parents are Diane Marie Dreffs and Douglass Lyal Cole. She has one sister, Kathleen Mae, five years her senior. Jessica’s middle name Marie was given from her mother, Diane Marie.

Jessica grew up in Bridgeport, Michigan. She attended Harvey E. Kauffman Elementary School and Bridgeport Junior High School. She met her lifetime best friend, Jennifer Strachan, in fifth grade. Jessica then moved with her father to Saginaw Township where she graduated from Heritage High School in 1995.

After high school, Jessica moved to Arizona and attended Arizona State University. It was during her sophomore year in January 1997 when she met her husband, Andrew Arthur Green.

After spending two summers in central California, she graduated from ASU’s College of Business in May 1999. Jessica moved to Burlington, Massachusetts for work until she returned to Arizona in April 2001.

She and Andrew were married in an intimate ceremony on February 2, 2002 at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Jessica currently lives with her husband Andrew in Gilbert, Arizona. She enjoys hanging out with Andrew, working on genealogy, watching movies, gambling (slots and poker), volunteering as an Arizona State Parks photographer and also as Arizona GenWeb researcher.