Jeff Hall (politician)

Jeffrey W. Hall, known as Jeff Hall (born December 26, 1951),^[1] is an American accountant from Alexandria, Louisiana, who is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 26 in Rapides Parish in the central portion of his state.^[2]

Hall is a graduate of the historically black Grambling State University^[2] in Grambling in Lincoln Parish. He has formerly resided in Pineville, Opelousas, and Mansfield, Louisiana, and Amarillo, Texas.^[3] Hall's place of birth, high school, religion, and names of his parents, spouse, and children are unavailable.

Hall won a special election to the House on February 21, 2015, with 84 percent of the vote. His two intra-party rivals, Alice "Red" Hammond and Daniel Williams, held the remaining 16 percent of the ballots cast in a low-turnout contest.^[4] The position opened when the African-American Democrat, Herbert Dixon, resigned because of health issues. On November 4, 2014, Hall had placed second with just over a third of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket primary to unseat Mayor Jacques Roy of Alexandria, who instead won a majority for his third term in office.^[1]

Hall stressed economic development, jobs, and resolving the $1 billion state budget shortfall as the principal issues he would face as state representative.^[1]

In 2018, Representative Hall announced that he will again run for mayor. In his statement of candidacy, Hall vowed to run on "a pro-business, pro-people platform that brings jobs back, grows existing businesses, and makes city government something that actually works. Do you think the city is better today than it was eleven years ago?"^[5] Mayor Jacques Roy, first elected in 2006, chose not seek a fourth term in the November 6 primary.^[6] Hall instead faces two Democratic women attorneys in the race: Catherine Louise Davidson (born August 12, 1968), a white attorney with 18 years of litigation in private civil practice focusing on Construction and permitting,4 years as Alexandria Assistant City Attorney, and 3 years as an Assistant District Attorney, and Kay H. Michiels (born c. 1955), a white former educator who formerly served as chief of staff and director of planning for Mayor Roy.^[7]

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