Jerry Allen Jared (born August 2, 1938) is an American attorney and former Democratic Party politician.

[3] From 1985 until his retirement from the state house in 1989, Jared was the chair of the body's Democratic caucus.

[4] The only son of Clara Olene (née Gill; 1915–2011) and Luke Allen Jared (1915–1986), he married the former Sylvia Ena Fields on September 2, 1960.

[5] The couple went on to have two children: a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Jennifer.

[6] In 2008, the Tennessee General Assembly passed and Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law a bill to name a portion of Tennessee State Route 111 in Putnam County "Jerry A. Jared Highway.