Jessica Adams

Dr. Jessica Adams was a major character on House during the last season of the series. She was the last member to join House's Diagnostic Team. Originally, she was a prison doctor who appeared in the season premiere of the eighth season. She worked at the prison where Gregory House was jailed after he crashes his car into Cuddy's living room.

She met House in the episode Twenty Vicodin, and from there, they shared a special relationship. She joined House's Diagnostic Team in the third episode of season 8. She worked with the new team consisting of Dr. Park, Dr. Taub and Dr. Chase.

After House's "fake death", she's present during his funeral, and after that, she stays in the team, only with Park and Taub, under Chase who became the new Head of Diagnostics.

She was portrayed by Odette Annable.

Character Background
Adams was born to a wealthy family sometime in the mid-1980s. Her family is "old money" - her ancestors have lived in the United States most likely since the days of the Revolutionary War and gained their wealth while the United States was a British colony. She shares a surname with the 2nd and 6th presidents of the United States and it is implied she is from the same family. She wears an old locket that House correctly pegged as being handed down through the generations and, since it's very expensive, that her family must have been wealthy.

Although she had loving dedicated parents who avoided the family dysfunction and infidelities typical of their generation and income group, in her junior year of high school she ran away from home in the mistaken belief that dysfunctional families (like the ones of her friends with divorced or adulterous parents) were somehow "deeper". However, after living with an older man for two months, she returned home. Although her grades had been good to that point, after returning, she completed her junior and senior years with straight A's and continued her studious ways into college.

After completing medical school and her internship, she served her residency at Johns Hopkins Medical School. She wears her Osler scarf on Fridays as per their tradition. It was never revealed where Adams went to college or medical school, or what her medical specialty was.

Sometime during this time, she got married. However, the marriage got off to a rocky start after her husband had an affair with a woman he met on the flight to their honeymoon destination. By the time she meets House she is separated from him and she finalizes the divorce just before she starts working for House.