Jill Meyers
Jill J. Meyers is an American bridge player from Santa Monica, California. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets, she ranked 7th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints and 1st by placing points that do not decay over time.
Meyers was born in New York City and earned a B.A. from Tulane University. She and her sister Nina moved to Los Angeles in 1972 and started to play duplicate bridge there, where Ed Davis was her first teacher. From 1979 she studied law at University of West Los Angeles and she passed the California bar in 1983, after which she played bridge more seriously. She is married to Sid Brownstein and is a self-employed "Music Consultant for Motion Picture, TV and Advertising industries". Before 1988 she worked in music departments within the film industry.
Meyers was inducted ito the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2014.
Bridge accomplishments
Awards and honors
- Herman Trophy 1987
- Mott-Smith Trophy 2001
- ACBL Hall of Fame, 2014
Wins
- North American Bridge Championships
- * Blue Ribbon Pairs 1999
- * Nail Life Master Open Pairs 2000, 2005
- * Smith Life Master Women's Pairs 1987
- * Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match 2010
- * Grand National Teams 2001
- * Machlin Women's Swiss Teams 1991, 1993, 2001, 2009, 2011
- * Wagar Women's Knockout Teams 1989, 1997
- * Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams 1991, 1999, 2003, 2011
Runners-up
- North American Bridge Championships
- * Silodor Open Pairs 2011
- * North American Pairs 2001
- * Grand National Teams 1999, 2010
- * Machlin Women's Swiss Teams 1987, 1995, 1999, 2003
- * Wagar Women's Knockout Teams 1990, 1993, 2003, 2007, 2012
- * Keohane North American Swiss Teams 1987
- * Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams 2001, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012