Background
Loftus was born on February 3, 1954 in Glens Falls, New York, United States; the daughter of John Lincoln Vines and Jeannette Jean (Gould) Vines.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Loftus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia in 1975.
Loftus was born on February 3, 1954 in Glens Falls, New York, United States; the daughter of John Lincoln Vines and Jeannette Jean (Gould) Vines.
Loftus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia in 1975. Fourteen years later she earned her Master of Business Administration degree from the California Coast University. Also she completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Loftus began her career as a contract specialist at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in 1975. Five years later she took a position of a contracting officer for the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System at the same organization. Then 1982, Jill became Head of the Command and Control Contracts Branch at SPAWAR. Also she served as Head of the Ship and Submarine Communications Contracts Branch at that organization from 1983 to 1986.
In 1986, she was appointed Head of the Tactical Aircraft Contracts Branch at NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command). Then in 1991, Loftus became the director of contract policy and management at NAVAIR. Two years later she joined the senior executive service as the director of contracts and grants for the National Institutes of Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, where she oversaw the contracting and grant activities for the twenty separate NIH Institutes.
In 1994, she became Head of Cruise Missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Contracts at SPAWAR. Also in 1997, Jill became Deputy naval inspector general.
Loftus is a member of Riverbend Golf and Country Club, University of Virginia Alumni Association and River Creek Club.
On September 6, 1975 Jill Loftus married Robert Houghwout Jackson Loftus. They have a child.