page_title: Jackie Clarkson
section_title: Election history
hierarchical_section_title: Jackie Clarkson / Election history
caption_attribution_description: Patricia Clarkson (left) with her mother, city councilwoman, Jackie Brechtel Clarkson. Taken in New Orleans, Louisiana
context_page_description: Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson is an American politician who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1994 to 2002, and multiple tenures on the New Orleans City Council. She has been Honorary consul of Lithuania in New Orleans since December 2014. She is the mother of actress Patricia Clarkson.
context_section_description: Although a lifelong Democrat, Clarkson has received support from Republican organizations including the Parish Executive Committee of the Orleans Parish Republican Party. In 2008 she broke party ranks and supported Republican challenger Anh "Joseph" Cao in his longshot but successful bid to unseat Democratic incumbent William J. Jefferson from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district seat.  Likeminded fellow Democratic Councilwoman Stacy Head found herself soon facing a recall petition. Clarkson, however, was not subjected to a recall effort; as councilwoman-at-large she represents a broader constituency, and she is more ingrained into the New Orleans political scene. In May 2009, as the New Orleans e-mail controversies intensified, Clarkson began publishing thousands of her e-mail messages online:
  Anything we don't want the public to see, we shouldn't put in an e-mail. . . . Just let us do it responsibly so private information about our constituents doesn't get out there.
  Councilmember, District C, 1994
  Threshold > 50%
  First Ballot, February 5, 1994
  State Representative, 102nd Representative District, 1994
  Threshold > 50%
  First Ballot, October 1, 1994
  Second Ballot, November 8, 1994
  State Representative, 102nd Representative District, 1995
  Threshold > 50%
  First Ballot, October 21, 1995
  Second Ballot, November 18, 1995
  State Representative, 102nd Representative District, 1999
  Threshold > 50%
  First Ballot, October 23, 1999
  Councilmember, District C, 2002
  Threshold > 50%
  First Ballot, February 2, 2002
  Councilmember(s) at Large (2), 2006
  Threshold > 25%
  First Ballot, April 22, 2006
  Second Ballot, May 20, 2006
  Councilmember at Large, 2007
  Threshold > 50%
  First Ballot, October 20, 2007
  First Ballot, November 17, 2007
caption: with her daughter in New Orleans
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