Jeanne Givens

Jeanne Givens (born c. 1951/1952) is an American politician who served in the Idaho House of Representatives from the 4th district as a member of the Democratic Party.

She is a member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe and was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives.

In the 1980s she was appointed to multiple board positions by Governor John Evans and unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Idaho House of Representatives in 1982, before winning in 1984.

In 1988, and 1990, she ran in Idaho's 1st congressional district for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, but was defeated both times.

During her tenure in the Idaho House of Representatives she served on the Indian Affairs, Business, Education, and Health and Welfare committees.

Celina Garry later married Ralph Zarste and Donald Goolesby before moving back to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Plummer, Idaho.

[25][1] During the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries she called for Hart to not enter the race due to his affair with Donna Rice Hughes.

[27] During her tenure in the Idaho House of Representatives she served on the Indian Affairs, Business, Education, and Health and Welfare committees.

[43] On August 7, 1992, Givens filed to run for a seat on North Idaho College Board of Trustees to succeed retiring incumbent Jack Beebe.

[31] In 1997, she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Board of Directors of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

[45] In 2014, Paulette Jordan, another female member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe, was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives.

[48] On January 20, 1986, Representative R. L. Davis introduced a questionnaire asking yes or no to the elimination of kindergarten from public schools or only offering it during short summer sessions, cutting education salaries by 5%, charging students for bus transportation unless their parent's property tax is above a certain level, replace paid teachers' aides with unpaid volunteers, freeze education funding, reduce athletic activities, year-round classes, repeal legislation allowing school to increase property taxes, and require property taxes to help fund colleges.

[49] On January 24, 1986, the Education committee voted 11 to 4, with Givens against, to advance legislation into the Idaho House of Representatives that would require creationism to be taught alongside evolution.

[58] In 1986, Representative Jerry Callen introduced legislation which would restrict teacher contract negotiations to only wages and the monetary value of fringe benefits.