Jean Doerge
| Jean McGlothlin Doerge | |
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State Representative Jean Doerge greets friends at a Minden High School alumni gathering.
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| Louisiana State Representative from District 10 (Webster Parish) | |
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In office 1998 – January 9, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Everett Gail Doerge |
| Succeeded by | Harlie Eugene "Gene" Reynolds |
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June 4, 1937 , Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Everett Doerge (married 1957-1998, his death) |
| Children | Sherie Doerge Lester |
| Occupation | Retired educator |
| Religion | United Methodist Church |
Jean McGlothlin Doerge (born June 4, 1937) is a retired school teacher and a Democratic former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Minden, who represented District 10 (Webster Parish) from the death in 1998 of her husband, Everett Doerge, until January 9, 2012.
In 2007, her colleagues named her to the House Appropriations Committee, a key panel that approves state spending. While in the legislature Doerge (pronounced DURR GHEE) was a member of the Hurricane Katrina Memorial Commission and the Democratic Caucus.
She was born to Thomas McGlothlin (1903–1966) and the former Cora Vercher (1904–1975) in tiny Galbraith in in Central Louisiana. She was the middle child in a family of seven daughters. She graduated from Cloutierville High School in Natchitoches Parish. Thereafter, she attended Northwestern State University in , where she met Everett Doerge, a native of Minden. They married in August 1957, and both graduated in 1958. Later, she received her master's degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and thirty additional hours of credits in professional education from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
Doerge first taught at Minden High School when it was ranked among the ten best schools in the state. For several years, the Doerges moved around, having been teachers for two years in Arp in Smith County. Texas. When Everett went to Northwestern as an assistant coach, Jean worked in an office in Natchitoches. Later, she resumed teaching in the town of Cotton Valley in Webster Parish.
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