Jeanne Umana biography: 13 things about Santa Barbara, California woman

Jeanne Terese Umana is an Italian-American woman from Santa Barbara, California, United States. She is a former law professor at the University of California Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara.

Aside from Santa Barbara, Umana has lived in other parts of California including Lake Gregory, Sebastopol, Crestline, San Bernardino and Ojai. She previously lived in Wellsville, Missouri, USA and Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

In August 2023, Umana verbally attacked a Latino street vendor named Antonio, who filmed the encounter. She told him, “‘You’re illegal.”

“You’re selling food that is going to make people sick,” Umana continued. “The city is arresting people doing that now, they don’t want you here. They want you out.”

On September 16, 2023, Umana entered a house at an active construction site in Santa Barbara so she was approached by Latino construction worker Luis Cervantes. He told her the house was on private property and she needed to leave. 

Cervantes also filmed the encounter, which showed how Umana tried to grab his cellphone while he was filming her. She told him, “Oh, arrest me.”

“I live here,” Umana continued. “I’m American. You’re a Tijuanan.”

Umana is also known as Jeanne Kilpatrick. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is 2 years younger than her sister Anne Umana Scigliano, who is married to Ned Scigliano, and 8 years younger than her husband Reid Francis Kilpatrick III.
2. In 1947, her parents Mario Umana and Anne T. Nigro Umana got married. Her father, who was of Italian descent, was a Boston Municipal Court judge and Massachusetts senate majority leader while her mother was a piano prodigy.
3. In 1966, she gave birth to Reid Kilpatrick IV.
4. In 1969, she gave birth to Christian C. Kilpatrick.
5. In 1980, she gave birth to Scott K. Kilpatrick.
6. Until 2004, she was a University of California Santa Barbara professor.
7. On April 27, 2005, his father passed away at age 58.
8. On July 8, 2010, her husband Reid III died at Redlands Community Hospital in Redlands, California at age 69.
9. On November 17, 2013, her mother died in Massachusetts at age 102.
10. In August 2023, she was caught on camera falsely claiming to work for the Santa Barbara Police Department in public relations. It was later confirmed that she had no affiliation with the department. 
11. On September 16, 2023, she told Cervantes, “I work for the police.” On September 17, 2023, she went to the Santa Barbara Police Department to file a report for death threats and harassing phone calls. Outside the police station, she was confronted by Latino activist Edin Alex Enamorado.
12. On September 18, 2023, she told the Los Angeles Times, “I am truly sorry that this got out of hand and I regret making statements like that because I said them in the heat of the moment.” 
13. She was 73 years old when she was charged on October 18, 2023 with battery and trespassing. On November 30, 2023, she will be arraigned in the Santa Barbara Superior Court. 

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