Jessie Campbell Louden grew up in Brightons, attended Falkirk High School, 1915-1920, and Edinburgh University, 1923-1935, trained as a teacher and taught at Slamannan Public School and Falkirk Northern School. She was also active in the Falkirk Ice Skating Club as a member of the Committee, as Secretary and as an Ice Figure Test judge for the National Skating Association of Great Britain. She was the daughter of John Louden and Jane Drinnan