Jane H. Smith
| Jane Holland Smith | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for District 8 (Bossier Parish) | |
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In office 2000–2012 |
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| Preceded by | Robert E. "Bob" Barton |
| Succeeded by | Jeff R. Thompson |
| Louisiana House Minority Leader | |
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In office 2008–2012 |
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| Succeeded by | John Bel Edwards |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 21, 1948 Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Wendell Scott Smith |
| Children |
Hillary S. Garner |
| Residence | Bossier City, Bossier Parish, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Northwestern State University |
| Occupation | Educator; former Bossier Parish school superintendent |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
Hillary S. Garner
Jane Holland Smith (born January 21, 1948) is a retired educator and a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
In 2012, Smith was appointed by Governor Bobby Jindal as deputy secretary of the Louisiana Revenue Department, a full-time position. She was subsequently named by Jindal to one of the three appointed seats on the eleven-member Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Prior to her legislative service, which began in 2000, Smith had been the first woman in Bossier Parish to have been appointed as a high-school principal of Haughton High School in Haughton from 1988–1995 and as superintendent of the public schools (1994–1999). She is also the first female ever to have been elected as a state legislator from Bossier Parish.
A native of Sabine Parish in western Louisiana, Smith received her Bachelor of Science and her Master of Education degrees, plus thirty additional graduate hours, from Northwestern State University in , Louisiana. NSU named her a "Distinguished Alumnus" and invited her as commencement speaker at the 2001 graduation exercises. Smith also completed a course in school principalship at Centenary College in Shreveport.
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