Women’s History Month Convocation

Monday, March 28, 2022
T.H. Harris Auditorium
11:00 am
Keynote: Senator Katrina R. Jackson, District 34

About Senator Katrina R. Jackson

Currently serving as vice-chair of the Senate Education Committee, Jackson is also a member of the Louisiana Senate’s Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development Committee; the Insurance Committee; the Select Committee on Women and Children; and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

Jackson is a member of the Louisiana Legislative Women’s Caucus and the Louisiana Rural Caucus and began her law career as a practicing attorney working in the offices of Willie Hunter, Jr. practicing in both the Monroe and Baton Rouge areas.

In 2006 Jackson became a staff attorney for the La. House Committee on Labor & Industrial Relations and as Executive Director of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus. In 2012 Ms. Jackson opened her private law firm, Katrina R. Jackson LLC, in Monroe, Louisiana.

Some of Jackson’s honors include Legislator of the Year by the Louisiana State Troopers Association in 2015, Legislator of the Year by the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians in 2015, Champion of Louisiana Juvenile Justice by the State Office of Juvenile Justice in 2015, the 2016 Legislator of the Year by the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians, the 2017 Legislator of the Year, Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians, the 2017 Legislator of the Year, Louisiana Orthopedic Association and the 2018 District 5 Legislative Advocate of the Year by the Louisiana State Medical Society.