page_title: Jari Askins
section_title: Oklahoma House of Representatives
hierarchical_section_title: Jari Askins / Oklahoma House of Representatives
caption_attribution_description: English: Jari Askins, Oklahoma politician
context_page_description: Jari Askins is an American judge, lawyer and Democratic politician from the US state of Oklahoma. She was the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, being the second woman and the first female Democratic Party member to hold that position.
  Askins won the Oklahoma Democratic Party's 2010 gubernatorial nomination by defeating Attorney General Drew Edmondson. She was defeated in the general election by Republican Congresswoman Mary Fallin.
context_section_description: Before Governor Walters was succeeded by Republican Frank Keating, Askins ran, and was elected to, the Oklahoma House of Representatives, beginning her term in 1995. She served six terms in office (12 years, the maximum combined service allowed in the Oklahoma Legislature as the Representative of the 50th House District, which includes her home town, Duncan.
  During her final term (2005–2006), she was elected and served as Democratic House Leader, the first woman to lead a caucus in the state's legislature.
caption: Askins during her time in the House
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