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Jaggi was born in Lausanne on 11 February 1941. She studied economics and humanities at the University of Lausanne, graduating in 1964. In 1970, she earned a doctorate in political science.[1]
She was elected to the Lausanne Municipal Council in 1981 and headed the city's finance department.[4] In 1989, she was re-elected to the same office and, in November of that year, was elected as the first woman, and third socialist, mayor of Lausanne. She took mayoral office in 1990 and was mayor until 1997, having been re-elected in 1993.
Honours
On 21 February 2013, Jaggi was decorated as a Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite in a ceremony at the French Embassy in Bern.[5]
