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Wendy Jaquet is a Democrat serving her eighth term representing Idaho’s District 25 A comprised of all of Blaine, Camas, Lincoln and Gooding counties.
Representative Jaquet and her husband Jim, who retired as Ketchum’s City Administrator, are originally from Seattle having both attended the University of Washington and obtaining degrees in Political Science and graduate degrees in Public Administration. Their two married sons, Michael and Brian, currently live and work in San Mateo and New York City.
Representative Jaquet serves on the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee, the Judiciary and Rules Committee and the Energy, Environment and Technology Committee. In previous sessions Jaquet has served on the Health and Welfare, Education, Agriculture, Natural Resources and State Affairs Committees.
In 2011, Wendy was awarded "A Friend of Education Award" by the Idaho Education Association and the Pat Ford Award from the Idaho Conservation League. Both awards honor her hard work and dedication to the betterment of Idaho. Representative Jaquet is especially proud of her legislative accomplishments and initiatives which include the following:
Adding Hepatitis B to the list of required immunizations for preschoolers
Obtaining funding for the Gooding school district special needs center (with Stennett and Ridinger)
Preventing health insurers from exempting recreation injuries from benefits
Creating the Idaho Reading Initiative with a bi-partisan committee
Providing for early teacher retirement
Allowing cities to set speed limits on state highways within city boundaries (with Ridinger)
Doubling the penalty if domestic abuse is committed in front of a child
Establishing mediation as a tool for planning and zoning disputes
In her first term in the legislature, Jaquet served on the interim committee on County Optional Forms of Government. She has served on Governor Batt’s Medicaid Reform Committee, the interim committee on Property Rights, the Reading Committee, the 2002 Olympic Committee and the Governor’s Council on Adolescent Pregnancy. She was appointed to the Governor’s Safe Schools Committee, the County CAFO Committee, co-chaired the Rules rewrite of the Children’s Treatment efforts, served on the Privacy interim committee and the Governor’s Committee on Rural Economic Development, assisted the Sales Tax Evaluation Task Force and the Natural Resources and Property Taxes Committees. Currently, Wendy is serving on the Energy Interim Committee.
Prior to serving in the Idaho Legislature, Representative Jaquet was the Executive Director of the Sun Valley-Ketchum Chamber of Commerce during a period of membership and financial growth and success. Jaquet coordinated the very successful Ketchum Wagon Days and served as Grand Marshall in September, 2001.
Wendy is also particularly proud of the following achievements in the legislature:
Providing life insurers pay interest on death benefits
Provide exception to 21 years of age requirement to legally enter or remain on premises licensed to serve alcohol at theaters during live performances
Mandating that education is a right for all Idahoans and ensuring that students in Idaho can compete on a national level
Repeal term limits for planning and zoning commissioners with concurrence of 2/3 vote of governing board
Change death row inmate solitary confinement to maximum security at director’s discretion
Allowing dessert wines in restaurants with beer/wine licenses (with Clark)
Creating a misdemeanor citation for curfew violations
Enabling legislation to allow counties to bond for open space and wildlife protection (with Kempton)
Enabling legislation to allow implementation of a transferrable development right, TDR, effort
Creating the requirement for disclosure for push-poll phone calls
Demolishing the Gooding TB hospital (with Stennett, Ridinger, Bell)
Creating a tax deduction for the purchase of long term care (with Cameron)
Creating an interim study committee on e-commerce (with Newcomb)
Introducing legislation to permit cities, counties, and school districts to join state health plan to reduce premium costs.
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