Jenny Reid is set to be Inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame on October 7, 2023

In the top left photo, Reid lands a left to  Therese Robitaille’s chin, Copyrights:  The Whig-Standard, dated July 30, 1991; and in the bottom right photo Robitaille (left) backs away from a right delivered by Reid, copyrights:  Rob Cowperthwaite/The Kingston Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network.]

Jenny Reid, born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Toronto, Ontario, she was the 3rd of 5 children in what was a very active and athletic family.  With her brothers and sisters participating in track and field, hockey, football, volleyball, and basketball, Jenny found her own way running track, cross country, triathlons, and also played soccer and hockey.

In 1990, Jenny started boxing in Kingston as a way to challenge herself physically and find a release from the still demanding law career .  Realizing that women were not allowed to box competitively as amateurs, Jenny pushed Boxing Canada to allow her and other women to have the opportunity to compete.  On July 29, 1991  Reid and Therese Robitaille made history by becoming the first two women to box in a sanctioned amateur boxing match in North America in front of 1,200 spectators in Sydney Nova Scotia.

Jenny went on to fight  about eleven more times with matches at the first Canadian Nationals in 1995, as well as the first internationally sanctioned women’s boxing open in Sweden in 1996.  Jenny also served as the Canadian women’s team manager at the Italian national tournament in 2005 As well as the Russian World Championships in 2006.

Jenny was called to the bar in Ontario in 1989 and has now practiced in six other Providences and territories from coast to coast specializing in criminal and family law.  Reid currently is practicing law in Victoria, BC.

The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame is proud to announce that Reid will be one of 12 IWBHF Inductees to be honored and formally inducted on Saturday, October 7, 2023, at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.   The event is a two-day event where they will have a pre-celebration on Friday, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.  Full details are on www.iwbhf.com/tickets.htm.