By Grambling State University
Louisiana State Sen. Katrina Jackson (D-Monroe) will be the keynote speaker for Grambling State University’s Women’s History Convocation.
The convocation will be held at 11 a.m. March 28 at T.H. Harris Auditorium on the GSU campus. Jackson earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and a Juris Doctor from the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge. She began her political career when she was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2011.
A past chair of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, Jackson is currently a member of the Louisiana State Senate, representing District 34 that includes parts of Concordia, East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland and Tensas parishes. She assumed office on Jan. 13, 2020, and her current term ends on Jan. 8, 2024.
Jackson won the election for Louisiana’s Senate District 34 outright in the primary on Oct. 12, 2019, after the primary and general election were canceled.
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.
A member of the Louisiana Legislative Women’s Caucus and the Louisiana Rural Caucus, Jackson 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 numerous honors have been being named 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.
