Jeannette Hayner

Jeannette Hayner
Jeannette Hayner (Republican) represen[ted] [the 16th] district comprising Franklin, Walla Walla, and part of Columbia in the State Senate. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1972, she served two terms there before her election to the Senate in 1976.

Born 1919, in Portland, Oregon, Hayner received her B.A. from the the University of Oregon and her J.D. from the University of Oregon Law School. She and her husband, Dutch, have three grown children. A former chairwoman of the Walla Walla School Board, Senator Hayner currently serves on several state and regional citizen advisory boards, including the Organized Crime Advisory board, and is a member of the Washington State Conservation Commission.

In 1981, Senator Hayner became the Washington State Legislature's first woman majority leader.

--Political Pioneers, The Women Lawmakers