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
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