Jennie McCormick

In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, McCormick was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to astronomy. She was awarded the Murray Geddes Memorial Prize of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand in 2006. In 2016 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand

In 2004 McCormick became part of the MicroFUN Collaboration Microlensing Follow-up Network, a collaboration of observers from five continents, both professional and amateur dedicated to photometric monitoring of microlensing events in the Galactic Bulge. The primary scientific objective of this group is to observe high magnification microlensing events that give the best potential for detecting extra-solar planets. Farm Cove Observatory is known as MicroFun Farm Cove. As part of a 2005 collaborative MicroFUN project McCormick, along with another New Zealand astronomer, Grant Christie, was credited with assisting in getting confirmation of a planet around 15,000 light years away from Earth, thought to be one of the "most distant ever discovered."

Since 2002 she has been the sole proprietor of Farm Cove Observatory, an observatory in Pakuranga, a suburb of Auckland. The observatory has the IAU code E85 and is equipped with a 35 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Construction of the observatory began in 1999 and it opened on 14 February 2000. As an astronomer, she has co-discovered ~25 exoplanets since 2015. On 16 September 2009, she discovered inner main belt asteroid 2009 SA1, at Farm Cove Observatory, which she named (386622) New Zealand on 21 May 2016.

In early 2000, McCormick became a member of CBA, The Centre for Backyard Astrophysics based at Columbia University. The group is engaged in long term photometeric study of Cataclysmic Variable stars or CV's. Farm Cove Observatory is known as CBA Pakuranga.

McCormick was appointed member of the Auckland Astronomical Society in 1988. She has been a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (RASNZ) since the 1990s, and was made a Fellow (FRASNZ) of the Society in 2016. In 2008/2009 she was the coordinator for the International Year of Astronomy 2009's, 100 Hours of Astronomy, a science outreach event that reached a global audience. She has been a member of Astronomers Without Borders since 2011.

Jennie Margaret McCormick MNZM, FRASNZ (née Brown; born 1963) is a New Zealand amateur astronomer and asteroid discoverer who conducts astronomical research from the Farm Cove Observatory in Auckland. She discovered the asteroid officially named New Zealand and has contributed to and been involved in a range of organisations and events to promote astronomy. McCormick has published in several journals and won awards for her contributions to astronomy.