Katrina Renee Jackson (born July 1977) is a
lawyer
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from
Monroe,
Louisiana
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, who is a
Democratic member of the
Louisiana State Senate
The Louisiana State Senate (french: Sénat de Louisiane) is the upper house of the state legislature of Louisiana. All senators serve four-year terms and are assigned to multiple committees.
Composition
The Louisiana State Senate is compose ...
for the
34th district, serving since 2020. From 2012 until 2020, Jackson served in the
Louisiana House of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ...
for the 16th district, which includes
Morehouse and
Ouachita parishes
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.
Education
Jackson earned a
bachelor's degree
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from the
University of Louisiana at Monroe
The University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) is a public university in Monroe, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System.
History
ULM opened in 1931 as Ouachita Parish Junior College. Three years later it became the Northeast Cen ...
and a
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
from the
Southern University Law Center
Southern University Law Center is a public law school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is part of the historically black Southern University System and was opened for instruction in September 1947. It was authorized by the Louisiana State Board ...
in
Baton Rouge
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Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-sma ...
.
Career
Jackson was elected to the state House in 2011. She serves on the Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development Committee, the Commerce Committee, the Health and Welfare Committee, the Appropriations Committee, the Committee on Joint Budget, and the House Executive Committee. Jackson is a member of the Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus and the Louisiana Rural Caucus, and is the head of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus.
In 2014, Jackson, who unlike most national Democrats opposes
abortion
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, authored House Bill 388, which would require abortion providers to have
admitting privileges
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with a hospital near their clinics. The law was approved in the House with only five dissenters. If passed, it would reportedly have resulted in three of the state's five abortion clinics closing immediately. The bill was argued to be
unconstitutional
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under the precedent set by the decision in
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
''Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt'', 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court decided on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create a ...
, and was struck down as such by the
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
in
June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo
''June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo'', 591 U.S. 1101 (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a Louisiana state law placing hospital-admission requirements on abortion clinics doctors was unconstitutional. T ...
in June 2020.
On January 22, 2016, Jackson was a guest speaker at the
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* March for Life (Washington, D.C.), an annual anti-abortion gathering held in Washington, D.C.
* March for Life (Paris), an annual demonstration held in Paris protesting abortion
* March for Life (Prague), an annual ...
in
Washington, D.C.
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In the nonpartisan blanket primary on October 12, 2019, Jackson was elected unopposed to succeed
term-limited
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Democratic lawmaker Francis C. Thompson for
District 34
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in the
Louisiana State Senate
The Louisiana State Senate (french: Sénat de Louisiane) is the upper house of the state legislature of Louisiana. All senators serve four-year terms and are assigned to multiple committees.
Composition
The Louisiana State Senate is compose ...
. Thompson is instead seeking to return to the state House in which he served for thirty-three years prior to 2008 and replace the term-limited Republican representative
Charles "Bubba" Chaney
Charles R. Chaney, known as Bubba Chaney (born September 23, 1946), is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 19, which includes his home city of Rayville in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
A graduate ...
of
Richland Parish
Richland Parish is a parish located in the North Louisiana Delta Country in the U.S. state of Louisiana, known for its fertile, flat farmland, cane brakes, and open spaces. The name Richland was chosen due to the rich production from farming. Th ...
.
[Sam Hanna, Jr., "Who Wants to Serve?", ''The Colfax Chronicle'', January 31, 2019, p. 4.]
References
External links
Louisiana State Senate pageTwitter accountThis account does not exist 16-05-2021.Instagram account
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1977 births
Living people
University of Louisiana at Monroe alumni
Southern University Law Center alumni
Louisiana lawyers
Women state legislators in Louisiana
Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Democratic Party Louisiana state senators
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
African-American state legislators in Louisiana
African-American women in politics