Polly Jung Thomas is an American politician and retired educator. She has been serving as a member of the
Louisiana House of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (; ) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 4 ...
representing the 80th district, covering parts of
Jefferson Parish
Jefferson Parish () is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 440,781. Its parish seat is Gretna, its largest community is Metairie, and its largest incorporated city is Kenner. Jefferson Parish i ...
,
Louisiana
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, since 2016.
Education
Thomas earned her
BA degree from the
University of Southwestern Louisiana
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus University of Louisiana Sys ...
and her
MS and
PhD
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degrees from
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...
.
References
Living people
Louisiana Republicans
Texas A&M University alumni
Republican Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
21st-century members of the Louisiana State Legislature
American educators
Women state legislators in Louisiana
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women politicians
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