Jeannette O. Wallace (January 16, 1934 – April 8, 2011) was an American politician who was a Republican member of the

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from 1991 until her death. She was an alumnus of

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and worked in public relations. She was married to Terry Wallace Sr., a staff member at

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. Their son Terry Wallace Jr., a

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, became the 11th director of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2018.

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