Jessie May Nickson, née Shaw (May 29, 1918 in Ottawa – June 5, 2010) was the first woman elected as an alderman on Ottawa City Council (excluding the Board of Control and mayor) serving from 1955 to 1960, representing St. George's Ward. Nickson was born at the Ottawa Maternity Hospital on May 29, 1918 to , who also served as an Ottawa alderman, and Ethel T. Shaw, who was a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1958 Canadian federal election. In addition to diving and golf, she also enjoyed bridge, and water skiing and swimming at her family cottage on Danford Lake. She had three children.