Jane Dee Hull (née Bowersock; August 8, 1935 – April 16, 2020) was an American politician and educator who was the 20th governor of Arizona from 1997 to 2003.
She moved to Arizona with her husband, Terry, in 1962 where he began working on the Navajo Nation, while Jane raised the couple's four children and taught English.
Hull was constitutionally barred from running for a second full term in 2002, and retired from public service.
After hearing a Barry Goldwater speech,[1] she campaigned for him in the United States presidential election in 1964.
[7] In 1991, while she was speaker, the Arizona legislature experienced a major political scandal called AZSCAM, which resulted in the resignation or removal of ten members of the House and Senate.
As a result, Speaker Hull instituted a number of ethics reforms to reestablish public confidence in the legislature.
[11] She was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, herself a former Arizona legislator.
Arizona has no lieutenant governor, so the secretary of state, if holding office by election, stands first in the line of succession.
[15] Hull presided over the execution of Walter LaGrand, over the first ever recommendation of a stay from the Arizona clemency board.