Jessica Gardner

Jessica Pearsall Gardner (born July 1971) is an English academic librarian who has been the University librarian of the University of Cambridge since April 2017. She is the second woman to hold the position, after Anne Jarvis (2009–16). Gardner is a Fellow of Selwyn College.

She received a doctorate in modern literary archives from the University of Leeds. Her previous positions were head of Library and Culture Services at the University of Exeter and then University Librarian at the University of Bristol.