Bob Hensgens is an American politician serving as a 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 ...

from the 26th district. Elected in 2018, he was previously a member of 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 rep ...

from 2011 to 2018.

Education

Hensgens attended Vermilion Catholic High School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the

University of Louisiana at Lafayette The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus University of Louisiana System and the s ...

Career

Since 2009, Hensgens has worked as an administrator at the Gueydan Memorial Guest Home in Gueydan, Louisiana. He also served as the major of Gueydan from 2007 to 2011. Hensgens represented the 47th district in the

from April 2011 to December 2018. He was then elected to the

in a December 2018 special election. From 2012 to 2015, Hensgens served as vice chair of the House Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture and Rural Development Committee. During the 2019–2020 legislative session, he served as vice chair of the House Judiciary C Committee. Since 2021, he has served as chair of the House Natural Resources Committee.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hensgens, Bob Living people Republican Party Louisiana state senators Republican Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni People from Gueydan, Louisiana Year of birth missing (living people)