Lydia P. Jackson
 Lydia Patrice Jackson (born 1960) is a Democratic former member of the Louisiana State Senate from Shreveport Louisiana. An African American Jackson represented the District 39 in Caddo Parish in the far northwestern corner of her state from 2004 to 2012.Earlier from 2000 to 2004 she was the first person of her race to hold the District 2 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Prior to 1997 she was an aide in the District of Columbia to Democratic former U.S. Senator J.