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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Timothy Joey "Timmy" Ladner
| office=Mississippi State Representative<br> for District 93 (Hancock, Pearl River, and Stone counties)
| term_start=January 2012
| term_end=
| preceded=Dirk Dedeaux
| succeeded=
| birth_date=July 4, 1963
| birth_place=Gulfport, [[Mississippi]]
| citizenship=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| spouse=Carrie Smith Ladner
| children=
| alma_mater=Pearl River County Community College<br>
Mississippi Realtors Institute
| occupation=[[Real estate]] broker
| religion=[[Baptist]]
| residence=Poplarville, Pearl River County<br> Mississippi
}}
'''Timothy Joey Ladner''', known as '''Timmy Ladner''' (born July 4, 1963), is a [[real estate]] broker from Poplarville, [[Mississippi]], who is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 93, which encompasses Hancock, Pearl River, and Stone counties in the southern portion of his state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/house/ladner.xml|title=Timmy Ladner|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 13, 2017}}</ref>
A native of Gulfport on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Ladner attended Pearl River Community College in Poplarville. He is a [[Baptist]].<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/130301/timmy-ladner#|title=Noah Sanford's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 13, 2017}}</ref> He may be related to Heber Austin Ladner, Sr. (1902-1989), of Poplarville, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], who was from 1948 to 1980 the secretary of state for Mississippi and the namesake of the Heber Ladner Building in the capital city of [[Jackson]]. However, the author cannot verify the relationship, possibly a grandson or a great-nephew, or a distant cousin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/16/obituaries/heber-ladner-mississippi-official-86.html|title=Heber Ladner, Mississippi Official, 86|publisher=''[[New York Times]]''|date=June 16, 1989|accessdate=October 13, 2017}}</ref>
In the 2011 [[primary]] election for the District 93 House seat, Ladner defeated his intra-party rival, Kent Alexander, 3,036 votes (60.3 percent) to 2,003 (39.7 percent). In the [[general election]] on November 8, he narrowly unseated Democratic incumbent Dirk Dedeaux, 4,297 (51.5 percent) to 4,040 (48.5 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Timmy_Ladner|name=Timmy Ladner|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 13, 2017}]</ref> In the subsequent general election held on November 3, 2015, Ladner defeated a Democrat named Billy Joe Ladner (born c. 1960) of Pass Christian, 3,307 (67.6 percent) to 1,582 (32.4 percent).
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ms.gov/Elections-Voting/Pages/2015-General-Election.aspx|title=General election returns|date=November 3, 2015|publisher=Mississippi Secretary of State|accessdate=October 13, 2017}}</ref> Billy Joe Ladner ran unsuccessfully in 2011 for a supervisor's seat for Hancock County. It is unclear if these two Ladners are related.
Ladner serves on these House committees: (1) Gaming (vice chairman), (2) Agriculture, (3) Appropriations, (4) Investigate State Offices, (5) Judiciary B, (6) Marine Resources, and (7) Workforce Development.<ref name=pvs/>
In 2012, Representative Ladner voted to allow prayer in schools in Mississippi despite the [[United States Supreme Court]] rulings. In 2014, he voted to halt [[abortion]]s in Mississippi past twenty weeks of gestation. In 2015, he supported legislation to permit "wrongful death" lawsuits involving unborn children. In 2016, he voted against dismemberment [[abortion]]s in the state. He supported the expansion of exemptions for compulsory school vaccinations. He voted to grant civil and criminal immunity to those reporting what they believe are instances of [[terrorism]]. He co-sponsored legislation to permit churches to have designated personnel with firearms for the overall protection of the congregation. He backed the bill to guarantee within Mississippi protections for religious beliefs and matters of moral conscience. In 2017, he supported the legislation which authorizes additional methods of execution in Mississippi and backed the measure to classify the killing of first responders as first-degree [[murder]]. He voted to increase identification requirement for [[Medicaid]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/130301/timmy-ladner#.WeEDArpFzb0|title=Timmy Ladner's Voting Record|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 13, 2017}}</ref>
==See also==
Other Mississippi Republican state House members:
*[[William Tracy Arnold]]
*[[Dana Criswell]]
*[[Steve Hopkins]]
*[[Trey Lamar]]
*[[Shane Aguirre]]
*[[Jeff Hale]]
*[[Dan Eubanks]]
*[[Robert Foster]]
*[[Ashley Henley]]
*[[Rob Roberson]]
*[[Karl Oliver]]
*[[Bill Kinkade]]
*[[Vince Mangold]]
*[[Brent Powell]]
*[[Cory Wilson]]
*[[William Shirley]]
*[[Shane Barnett]]
*[[Chris Johnson]]
*[[Noah Sanford]]
*[[Patricia Willis]]
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