The International Chiropractors Association (ICA) has named Selina Sigafoose-Jackson, DC, as the recipient of its Chiropractor of the Year Award for 2024, according to an ICA press release.
This award is the highest recognition bestowed upon a doctor of chiropractic each year and is voted on by the Fellows of the ICA. Sigafoose-Jackson was honored at the ICA 98th Annual Convention in Dallas, Texas.
A pillar of the chiropractic profession, Sigafoose-Jackson has run a high-volume practice in York, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Kevin Jackson, DC, for more than 30 years.
She graduated from Life University’s College of Chiropractic in 1989 and is the daughter of famed lecturer James Sigafoose, DC, one of Life University’s founders. She follows in her father’s footsteps as a leader in chiropractic, having served in the ICA Representative Assembly (RA) and ICA Board of Directors. And for the last three years, she has served as the President of the ICA. She is the first woman to hold that position. She also serves in the leadership of the League of Chiropractic Women.
In accepting Chiropractor of the Year, Sigafoose-Jackson expressed a feeling of connection with her father. “It means I’ve been around a while,” she joked. “It also means I am included amongst some amazing servants to our profession, including my father. This award was the last award he received, two weeks before he passed away.”
Sigafoose-Jackson always prioritizes caring for people. “The biggest thing about chiropractic that keeps me motivated is the love of people,” she said. “Spreading the truth of health, life and God’s amazing creation of the human body and how chiropractic helps to promote this amazing design.”
A member of the ICA for more than 30 years, she recognizes its role in the history and future of chiropractic. “I just love that the ICA loves chiropractic,” she said. “That the ICA is the oldest chiropractic organization – it is a privilege and an honor to support and participate in the ICA. There is such a huge connection to our past and history through the ICA and it is the connection to our future as well.”
In the last year, Sigafoose-Jackson has been working tirelessly to ensure the future success of the ICA, regardless of outside circumstances. Even when asked about her accomplishments over the last year, she chose to recognize the team effort taking place behind the scenes. She highlights taking a more active role in facilitating dialogue between the Board of Directors and the Representative Assembly – in addition to general membership – through multiple virtual townhall meetings as a noted accomplishment this year. She also expressed her pleasure with the strides the Board has taken in restructuring governance and creating a strategic vision for the future, saying, “We’re working toward the board being more strategic and having the right people in the right seats.”
Looking ahead, she is excited for the potential of chiropractic to change the lives of even more people. “I am looking forward to chiropractic being the leading, number one healthcare profession over ALL professions – and I believe it will be,” she said. “I look forward to schools filling up and more schools being opened. I look forward to the human race understanding more and more the importance of maintaining nervous system health and how it relates to all organs, structures and functions of the human body.”
ICA Executive Director and CEO Beth Clay also recognized Sigafoose-Jackson’s incredible character and accomplishments. “It is such a tremendous honor to serve the chiropractic profession with Dr. Selina as the ICA President,” Clay noted. “She is a woman and doctor of uncompromising integrity and compassion, who lives every day the principles that guide the profession. And maybe most important of all, she is an amazing chiropractor who understands and shares at every opportunity that the key to the profession’s growth and success is the identification and correction of subluxations through the chiropractic adjustment.”
