Jean M. Doerge

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. 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...