Katrina Renee Jackson-Andrews (born July 1977)[1] is an American attorney and politician from Monroe, Louisiana, who is a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 34th district, serving since 2020.
From 2012 until 2020, Jackson served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for the 16th district, which includes Morehouse and Ouachita parishes.
If passed, it would reportedly have resulted in three of the state's five abortion clinics closing immediately.
[3] The bill was argued to be unconstitutional under the precedent set by the decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, and was struck down as such by the Supreme Court of the United States in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo in June 2020.
[4] On January 22, 2016, Jackson was a guest speaker at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.[5] In the nonpartisan blanket primary on October 12, 2019, Jackson was elected unopposed to succeed term-limited Democratic lawmaker Francis C. Thompson for District 34 in the Louisiana State Senate.