Dr Jackie Huggins AM (BA Qld, BA Hons, DipEd Flinders, Doctor of the University honoris causa Qld) is of the Bidjara (Central Queensland) and Birri-Gubba Juru (North Queensland) peoples.

Dr Huggins holds many leadership positions in organisations across the country. She is currently: Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia; a Director of the Telstra Foundation; Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National University; Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, UQ; Member of the Indigenous Advisory Board of the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, Central Queensland University; former Chair of the Queensland Domestic Violence Council (2001); former Commissioner for Queensland for the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (1997); and former member of the ATSIC Review Panel (2003).

She authored Auntie Rita (with Rita Huggins 1994) and Sistergirl (1999).

In 2000, Dr Huggins received the Premier's Millenium Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs, in 2001 she was awarded an Australia Medal (AM) for her work with Indigenous people, particularly with regards to reconciliation, literacy, women's issues and social justice and in 2007 Dr Huggins was named UQ Alumnus of the Year.