Jan Cheek
Janet Lynda Cheek is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency from 2009 to 2017. Cheek won re-election in 2013 but stepped down from the assembly at the 2017 election. She was previously a :Category:Members of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands|Member of the Legislative Council from 1997 to 2005.
Jan Cheek was born in Stanley and spent much of her childhood in South Georgia. For her A-Levels she was awarded a government scholarship to a study at a grammar school in Dorset. Cheek worked as a Secondary School English teacher from 1969 until 1989. She then moved to Fortuna Ltd. where she rose to become co-owner and director until her retirement in 2008.
Cheek married fellow islander John Cheek in 1968, with whom she had two children, Miranda and Ros. She then became a grandmother to Hamish, Flora and Tom. Following John's death in 1996, Cheek became a Trustee of the John Cheek Trust.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the Falkland Islands.
