Parish Staff

The Rev. Jane McDougle, DMA Priest with Charge/Music Director Jane was born in Exeter, England and was brought up in the Church of England. Jane is passionate about both parish ministry and music. She was educated at Cambridge, England, where she earned her degree in education; and at Stanford University, California, where she earned her Master’s and Doctorate of Musical Arts. She graduated with a Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in June, 2005. Jane has taught music at Trinity School from 1991, and became music director at St. Bede’s in autumn of 1992. She was ordained to the priesthood in December, 2005. Jane lives in Mountain View with her adult daughter, Eleanor.

Rani Fischer Organist Rani has been playing the organ since she was twelve. She started learning in Richmond, VA, at the behest of her mother and found that she really liked it. After attaining degrees in mathematics, Rani attended the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, to study organ with Peter Sykes. Throughout her musical career she has been playing in churches, mostly Anglican ones. She is very grateful to be in a parish which values liturgy so highly. Apart from St. Bede’s she also teaches math at College of San Mateo.

Jeanne Cooper Youth & Young Adults Coordinator Jeanne grew up in Houston, where she was confirmed in the Presbyterian Church and received her B.A. in English from Rice University. She moved to California in 1984 after being accepted into the English Ph.D. program at Stanford, and later worked as an editor and writer for the Washington Post and Boston Globe before returning to the Bay Area in 1997. Jeanne began attending St. Bede’s in 2003 and was subsequently confirmed in the Episcopal Church. A Sunday school teacher since 2005 and youth mentor since 2007, she became coordinator of “YAYA” programs in 2010 and heads the parish’s Community Service committee. Jeanne retired from the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008, but remains a frequent freelance travel writer.