Jean McGlothlin Doerge (born June 4, 1937) is a retired school teacher and a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Minden, who has represented District 10 (Webster Parish) since the death in 1998 of her husband, Everett Doerge. In 2007, her colleagues named her to the House Appropriations Committee, a key panel that approves state spending. Doerge (pronounced DURR GHEE) is also a member of the Hurricane Katrina Memorial...
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Jean McGlothlin Doerge (born June 4, 1937) is a retired school teacher and a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Minden, who has represented District 10 (Webster Parish) since the death in 1998 of her husband, Everett Doerge. In 2007, her colleagues named her to the House Appropriations Committee, a key panel that approves state spending. Doerge (pronounced DURR GHEE) is also a member of the Hurricane Katrina Memorial Commission and the Legislative Democratic Caucus.
She was born to Thomas McGlothlin (1903-1966) and the former Cora Vercher (1904-1975) in tiny Galbraith in Natchitoches Parish 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 (then College) in Natchitoches, where she met Everett, a native of Minden. They married in August 1957, and both graduated in 1958. Later, she received her master's...
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