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Her job: Jacobs is chairman, president and CEO of Buford-based Theragenics Corp., the manufacturer and distributor of Theraseed, an FDA-licensed device used in the treatment of prostate cancer.
Time line: Jacobs received her B.S. degree in medical technology from Daemon College in Buffalo, N.Y., 1972. Jacobs had a 13-year career as a registered medical technologist working with the trauma unit at Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. After a brief stint in sales management with a biotech firm in the mid-'80s, she came to Atlanta in '87 to work for then start-up Theragenics Corp.
Personal: Born Aug. 30, 1950, Jacobs is the oldest of nine children.
Proud moment: Jacobs was the first female chairman/CEO to lead a transfer from Nasdaq to the NYSE and ring the bell on the company's first day of trading in August 1998.
Producer's notes. During a Chronicle Profiles interview with Atlanta Business Chronicle publisher Ed Baker...