Jessie Gilmartin
Jessie Gilmartin
Motor Lab Coordinator
Jessie Gilmartin joined Geneva’s lower school faculty in 2023 and taught in both second and third grade for three years. In 2026, she transitioned to the position of motor lab coordinator. Geneva's motor lab is a designated space designed to help students develop foundational sensory and motor skills, regulate their nervous systems, and improve classroom focus through structured movement and play breaks.
Jessie graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA, in 2000 with a BS in psychology and a minor in early childhood education. She married her husband, Rick, that same year and began her teaching career in Harrisonburg teaching in a Head Start program with three- and four-year-olds. The following year, they relocated to Oviedo for Rick to attend Reformed Theological Seminary. During this time, Jessie worked for three years as a kindergarten teacher at Eastbrook Elementary School in Winter Park. They then returned to the Shenandoah Valley in 2005 when Rick accepted a call to a church in Waynesboro, VA, as a worship and discipleship director before planting a new church in Staunton, VA, in 2009.
Jessie was busy as a pastor’s wife and stay-at-home mom with her four children for the next fourteen years. Madi was born in Orlando before they moved back to Virginia. Becca, Andrew, and Luke followed not too many years later. Jessie enjoyed being at home and serving alongside Rick in ministry. In December 2022, the Lord led the Gilmartin family back to Orlando, and Rick is now the lead pastor at University Presbyterian Church. The family has adjusted to this huge life change while seeing so many of God’s blessings along the way.
The Gilmartins joined the Geneva family in January 2023 when their youngest child, Luke (class of 2027), enrolled in eighth grade. Their son Andrew (class of 2026) enrolled in tenth grade in the fall of 2023 and is a freshman at Florida State University. Madi currently attends the Magnolia School in Ocoee and Becca is a junior at Tallahassee State University. Jessie is also helping with the children’s ministry at UPC. She enjoys walking/running to various playlists she has created and going to the beach to relax. Jessie also loves taking pictures and creating albums and family scrapbooks when she has the time. She loves to read, watch movies with her family, travel to new places, and meet friends for coffee.
