Margaret Murray Jackson (nee Campbell) was born October 12, 1918 in Port Edward, BC. In 1936 she enrolled at the University of British Columbia, and the following year applied for entrance to the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing. She completed a three year nursing program at the Vancouver General Hospital in 1941, graduating the following year from UBC with a BSc degree with a major in Nursing.

In 1949 Margaret was one of the first nurses from British Columbia to acquire an MPH (Master of Public Health) degree, through the University of Michigan. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Margaret held several positions in the British Columbia Public Health System, including Staff Public Health Nurse (PHN); Supervisor; Assistant Director; and PHN Consultant in the Kamloops-Lilooet-Ashcroft area, 1948 to 1954.

In November 1954, Margaret began working with the World Health Organization. She was stationed as a nurse in Tehran, where she became a Nurse Team Leader, training nurses in administrative duties. She left Tehran in November 1956. Upon returning to Canada in 1957, Margaret began a career as an instructor of classroom and clinical Public Health Nursing and Statistics at the University of Alberta's School of Nursing. In 1966 she married Walter Jackson. She passed away in Edmonton July 3, 2003.