Jeanne Marie Ford (previously known as Jeanne Marie Grunwell) is an American television soap opera writer. She is also an English teacher at Hagerstown Community College. Ford, formerly a member of Writers Guild of America West, left and maintained financial core status during the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike.^[1]

Positions held

As the World Turns

• Script Writer: July 30, 2007 - October 18, 2007

Days of Our Lives

• Script Writer: 2000 - 2003, 2007, December 11, 2008 – 2011; August 17, 2012-present
• Associate Head Writer: 2001, 2003–2004; October 24, 2008 – August 25, 2011
• Script Editor: 2004 - 2005, 2005–2007; August 26, 2011 – August 16, 2012
• Occasional Script Writer: 2004
• Continuity Coordinator: 1999 - 2000
• Writer's Assistant: 1992 - 1996

One Life to Live (hired by Ron Carlivati)

• Script Writer: November 26, 2007 - September 2008

Awards and nominations

Writers Guild of America Award

• Nomination, 2001, Best Writing, Days of our Lives