Jeri and her husband Aaron own and operate Halls Bus Company, which covers various rural areas such as Numulgi, Bexhill, Whian Whian, Dunoon, and Leycester. They have two young children who also attend school locally in Lismore.

Along with the bus company, Jeri and Aaron are also partners in a cattle farm and a rural accommodation facility on the outskirts of Lismore. Jeri is an extremely community-minded person and is always heavily involved in volunteering in school life.

As Deputy Mayor during the last two years, Jeri has developed strong relationships with NSW Premiers Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns, Ministers for Transport and Roads, Disaster Recovery, and countless other regional centres that have aided Lismore’s Recovery.

Jeri has also provided pivotal support in the transportation industry as the chair of the Traffic Advisory Committee with close relationships with Transport for NSW, Locals schools, and the community at large. During her time on this committee, Jeri pioneered for the school interchange to remain at the previous Trinity site and helped to secure over a quarter of a million dollars worth of funding to be spent on bus shelter infrastructure to be built at the site to ensure the safety and comfort of children travelling on school buses throughout Lismore.

Jeri has built strong connections with parents, schools, and bus operators throughout our region to ensure that children and parents feel safe sending their kids on public transport throughout Lismore.  

As a mother of young children, Jeri has fought hard to ensure that post-flood, the children of Lismore still have adequate amenities to pursue their sporting endeavours, have a secure and safe passage to school, and are also afforded the same services that they would have been pre-flood, and she will unapologetically always fight for the youth of Lismore.

As a local mother, she co-created an online mothers’ group for women, “Eat. Sleep. Mum. Repeat”, which has nearly 4,200 members, with the primary focus of supporting mothers in our region. In her prior careers, Jeri has previously worked in governance roles at Southern Cross University and St Vincent’s Private Hospital.