Jane Hemmer

{{Short description|American politician (born 1947)}}

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|state_senate=Georgia State

|district=49th

|term_start=January 11, 1993

|term_end=January 9, 1995

|preceded=Nathan Deal

|succeeded=Casey Cagle

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|birth_date={{birth date and age|1947|03|23}}

|birth_place=Gainesville, Georgia, U.S.

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|party=Democratic

|spouse={{marriage|John Lee Hemmer Jr.|August 31, 1968}}

|children=2

|education=Augusta University (BS)

}}

Jane Reynolds Hemmer (born March 23, 1947){{cite book|title=Who's Who In America 1996|date=1996|volume=1|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|pages=1843–1844|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica0001unse_s9d8/|accessdate=May 9, 2023|via=Internet Archive}} is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman ever elected to the Hall County, Georgia board of commissioners in 1986.{{cite web|first=John|last=Harmon|title=Gainesville Gals Leave Ol' Boys Out of Their Network|work=The Atlanta Constitution|date=January 26, 1989|pages=1B, 3B|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/124297917/|accessdate=May 9, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}} She served until her election to the Georgia State Senate in 1992, where she succeeded then-Democrat Nathan Deal, who had successfully run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.{{cite web|first=Savannah|last=King|title=Hall County native is a Renaissance woman|work=The Gainesville Times|date=May 16, 2014|url=https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/life/life-top-stories/hall-county-native-is-a-renaissance-woman/|accessdate=May 9, 2023}} She lost her race for reelection to 28-year old Casey Cagle in the Republican Revolution of 1994.{{cite web|first=Emily Rose|last=Thorne|title=Casey Cagle vs. Brian Kemp: A quick guide to the Republican runoff candidates for Georgia governor|work=Atlanta|date=July 21, 2018|url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/cagle-kemp-republican-governor-runoff-quick-guide/|accessdate=May 9, 2023}}