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{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Kay Kellogg Katz
|office= [[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br> District 16 (Ouachita Parish; in 2012 Ouachita and Morehouse parishes)
|term_start=2000
|term_end=2012
|preceded=[[Jimmy Dimos]]
|succeeded=Katrina Jackson
|birth_date=September 24, 1938
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
Long-term resident of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisianar
|spouse=Ben Sanders Katz (died 2010)
|children=Dr. Robert Britton "Brit" Katz<br>
Kelley K. Vance<br>
Kris K. Coons
|party= [[Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=Former [[educator]]<br>
Former Monroe City Council member
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|alma_mater=Neville High School
[[Mississippi State University]]}}
'''Kay Kellogg Katz''' (born September 24, 1938) is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] former state representative for District 16, a post which she held the position from 2000 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Historical Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
Effective in 2012, the revised district encompasses fifteen precincts in Ouachita Parish and thirty precincts in neighboring Morehouse Parish. Katz was succeeded in the House by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Katrina Jackson, who received 51 percent of the vote over three opponents in the [[primary]] election held on October 22, 2011.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 2011.</ref>
==Background==
A resident of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Katz is a former member of the Monroe City Council, on which she was a member of the Street Improvement Committee.
A former [[educator]], Katz graduated from Neville High School] in Monroe and procured a Bachelor of Arts degree in [[English]] from [[Mississippi State University]] at [[Starkville, Mississippi|Starkville]], [[Mississippi]].
Katz has served on the boards of both the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council and the Louisiana State Arts Council. In 2000, the Louisiana Museum Association selected her as "Legislator of the Year" during her first year in office.
Katz is also a former Louisiana Republican national committeewoman, a position which automatically made her a member of the 168-member [[Republican National Committee]]. Like the then state Republican National Committeeman Ross Little, Jr., of [[Lafayette]], Katz endorsed [[U.S. Senator]] [[John McCain]] of [[Arizona]] for the 2008 Republican [[U.S. president|presidential]] nomination. Katz was succeeded as national committeewoman by [[Ruth Ulrich formerly the producer and announcer of ''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]]'' [[radio]] [[talk show]] program based first in Monroe and since in [[Lafayette]].
In 2008, Katz was elected treasurer of the Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus for a term which ended on June 30, 2009.<ref>[http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/20637984.html?index=27&c=y 2theadvocate.com | News | Political briefs for June 22, 2008 — Baton Rouge, LA<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Legislative matters==
On October 20, 2007, Katz defeated fellow Republican Ben Marshall, a former Ouachita Parish police juror [equivalent of county commissioner in mostother states), in her bid for a third term in House District 16 in the [[primary]]. Katz received 8,617 votes (64 percent) to Marshall's 4,116 (31 percent); a No-Party candidate, Benjamin P. Arnold, received 749 votes (6 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 20, 2007.</ref>
In her initial election to succeed Democrat [[Jimmy Dimos]], a former House [[Speaker]] who was elected to a judgeship, Katz led the October 1999 primary with 6,039 votes (49 percent). Fellow Republican Tony Cain finished second with 3,010 votes (24 percent) and decided not to pursue a [[general election]] campaign against Katz. She was hence automatically elected based on her primary showing. A Democrat, Dan Street, finished third with 2,944 votes (also 24 percent), and a "No Party" candidate, Chuck James, polled 403 votes (3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref> Katz was unopposed for her second term in the 2003 primary.
In the Louisiana House, she served on three committees: Health and Welfare, Transportation, Highways and Public Works, and Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. In the legislature, Katz was considered one of the more consistent [[conservative]] members in a Republican Party increasingly led by a coalition of Democrats and [[Moderate Republicans] known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]]]. After 2004, Katz was rated 100 percent by the Louisiana Family Forum. She was also highly ranked by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.
==Personal life==
Katz was married to Ben Sanders Katz, Jr. (March 3, 1938 – January 13, 2010), until his death at the age of seventy-one from complications of [[pneumonia]]. Ben Katz, a native of Starkville, Mississippi, was the son of Ben Katz, Sr., and the former Mildred Stanley. He graduated from Starkville High School and Mississippi State University. He was a senior vice president of Amax Coal Company and president of Deposit Trust Bank. Ben Katz served on the boards of the Council on Aging, the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana, Monroe Rotary Club, and the Council of Retired Executives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/, aadclassifieds?Dato=20100115&Kategori=OBITUARY&Class=30&Type=CAT30200&Lopenr=100100182&Selected=1|title=Obituary of Ben Sanders Katz|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|date=January 15, 2010|accessdate=January 15, 2010}}</ref>
By her late husband Kay Katz has three children, Dr. Robert Britton "Brit" Katz (born 1957), Kelley Katz Vance (born 1958), and Kris Katz Coons. The Katzes are [[Presbyterian]]. At the time of his death, Ben Katz was the only Republican member of the Monroe City Council. In his third term from Council District 2, he had succeeded his wife on the council after victory in a [[special election]] called in 2000 after Kay Katz entered the legislature.<ref>Robbie Evans, "Monroe City Councilman Ben Katz dead at 71: He was elected to the council three times as a fiscal conservative", ''Monroe News-Star'', January 14, 2010.</ref>
In February 2012, Republican [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]] appointed Katz to a $56,000 position as a member of the Louisiana Tax Commission, which regulates [[ad valorem]] matters.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' February 20, 2012.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
* http://www.kaykatz.com/
* http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=MLA13593?q=print
* http://www.votetherecord.com/?p=172
* http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071215/NEWS01/712150316
{{DEFAULTSORT:Katz, Kay}}
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|name= Kay Kellogg Katz
|office= [[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br> District 16 (Ouachita Parish; in 2012 Ouachita and Morehouse parishes)
|term_start=2000
|term_end=2012
|preceded=[[Jimmy Dimos]]
|succeeded=Katrina Jackson
|birth_date=September 24, 1938
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
Long-term resident of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisianar
|spouse=Ben Sanders Katz (died 2010)
|children=Dr. Robert Britton "Brit" Katz<br>
Kelley K. Vance<br>
Kris K. Coons
|party= [[Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=Former [[educator]]<br>
Former Monroe City Council member
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|alma_mater=Neville High School
[[Mississippi State University]]}}
'''Kay Kellogg Katz''' (born September 24, 1938) is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] former state representative for District 16, a post which she held the position from 2000 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Historical Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
Effective in 2012, the revised district encompasses fifteen precincts in Ouachita Parish and thirty precincts in neighboring Morehouse Parish. Katz was succeeded in the House by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Katrina Jackson, who received 51 percent of the vote over three opponents in the [[primary]] election held on October 22, 2011.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 2011.</ref>
==Background==
A resident of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Katz is a former member of the Monroe City Council, on which she was a member of the Street Improvement Committee.
A former [[educator]], Katz graduated from Neville High School] in Monroe and procured a Bachelor of Arts degree in [[English]] from [[Mississippi State University]] at [[Starkville, Mississippi|Starkville]], [[Mississippi]].
Katz has served on the boards of both the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council and the Louisiana State Arts Council. In 2000, the Louisiana Museum Association selected her as "Legislator of the Year" during her first year in office.
Katz is also a former Louisiana Republican national committeewoman, a position which automatically made her a member of the 168-member [[Republican National Committee]]. Like the then state Republican National Committeeman Ross Little, Jr., of [[Lafayette]], Katz endorsed [[U.S. Senator]] [[John McCain]] of [[Arizona]] for the 2008 Republican [[U.S. president|presidential]] nomination. Katz was succeeded as national committeewoman by [[Ruth Ulrich formerly the producer and announcer of ''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]]'' [[radio]] [[talk show]] program based first in Monroe and since in [[Lafayette]].
In 2008, Katz was elected treasurer of the Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus for a term which ended on June 30, 2009.<ref>[http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/20637984.html?index=27&c=y 2theadvocate.com | News | Political briefs for June 22, 2008 — Baton Rouge, LA<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Legislative matters==
On October 20, 2007, Katz defeated fellow Republican Ben Marshall, a former Ouachita Parish police juror [equivalent of county commissioner in mostother states), in her bid for a third term in House District 16 in the [[primary]]. Katz received 8,617 votes (64 percent) to Marshall's 4,116 (31 percent); a No-Party candidate, Benjamin P. Arnold, received 749 votes (6 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 20, 2007.</ref>
In her initial election to succeed Democrat [[Jimmy Dimos]], a former House [[Speaker]] who was elected to a judgeship, Katz led the October 1999 primary with 6,039 votes (49 percent). Fellow Republican Tony Cain finished second with 3,010 votes (24 percent) and decided not to pursue a [[general election]] campaign against Katz. She was hence automatically elected based on her primary showing. A Democrat, Dan Street, finished third with 2,944 votes (also 24 percent), and a "No Party" candidate, Chuck James, polled 403 votes (3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref> Katz was unopposed for her second term in the 2003 primary.
In the Louisiana House, she served on three committees: Health and Welfare, Transportation, Highways and Public Works, and Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. In the legislature, Katz was considered one of the more consistent [[conservative]] members in a Republican Party increasingly led by a coalition of Democrats and [[Moderate Republicans] known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]]]. After 2004, Katz was rated 100 percent by the Louisiana Family Forum. She was also highly ranked by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.
==Personal life==
Katz was married to Ben Sanders Katz, Jr. (March 3, 1938 – January 13, 2010), until his death at the age of seventy-one from complications of [[pneumonia]]. Ben Katz, a native of Starkville, Mississippi, was the son of Ben Katz, Sr., and the former Mildred Stanley. He graduated from Starkville High School and Mississippi State University. He was a senior vice president of Amax Coal Company and president of Deposit Trust Bank. Ben Katz served on the boards of the Council on Aging, the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana, Monroe Rotary Club, and the Council of Retired Executives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/, aadclassifieds?Dato=20100115&Kategori=OBITUARY&Class=30&Type=CAT30200&Lopenr=100100182&Selected=1|title=Obituary of Ben Sanders Katz|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|date=January 15, 2010|accessdate=January 15, 2010}}</ref>
By her late husband Kay Katz has three children, Dr. Robert Britton "Brit" Katz (born 1957), Kelley Katz Vance (born 1958), and Kris Katz Coons. The Katzes are [[Presbyterian]]. At the time of his death, Ben Katz was the only Republican member of the Monroe City Council. In his third term from Council District 2, he had succeeded his wife on the council after victory in a [[special election]] called in 2000 after Kay Katz entered the legislature.<ref>Robbie Evans, "Monroe City Councilman Ben Katz dead at 71: He was elected to the council three times as a fiscal conservative", ''Monroe News-Star'', January 14, 2010.</ref>
In February 2012, Republican [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]] appointed Katz to a $56,000 position as a member of the Louisiana Tax Commission, which regulates [[ad valorem]] matters.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' February 20, 2012.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
* http://www.kaykatz.com/
* http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=MLA13593?q=print
* http://www.votetherecord.com/?p=172
* http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071215/NEWS01/712150316
{{DEFAULTSORT:Katz, Kay}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservaties]]
[[Category:Presbyterians]]