Jeff R. Thompson

Jefferson Rowe "Jeff" Thompson
Division B Judge of the Louisiana 26th Judicial District Court
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 2015
Preceded by	Ford Edwards Stinson, Jr.
Louisiana State Representative for District 8 (Bossier Parish)
In office January 2012 – January 2015
Preceded by	Jane Holland Smith
Succeeded by	Mike Johnson
Born	March 10, 1965 Alexandria, Louisiana
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Toni Estelle Hurst Thompson
Religion	Baptist

Jefferson Rowe Thompson, known as Jeff Thompson (born March 10, 1965), is a lawyer in Bossier City, Louisiana, who is a judge of the Louisiana 26th Judicial District. A Republican born in Alexandria, he formerly served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 8 in Bossier Parish from 2012 to 2015.

Thompson is a candidate in a special election scheduled on March 30, 2019, to fill the seat of the retired Justice Henry Newton Brown on the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, based in Shreveport. He faces fellow Republican Jason Trevor Brown; no Democrat filed for the seat.

In 2011, Thompson was elected to the House when the term-limited incumbent, fellow Republican Jane Holland Smith, also of Bossier City, ran instead, unsuccessfully, for the Louisiana State Senate. Thompson defeated fellow Republican and conservative Duke Lowrie, 4,991 (56.8 percent) to 3,803 (43.3 percent). Smith, meanwhile, was defeated by the Republican businessman Barrow Peacock of Shreveport for the Senate seat vacated by Republican B. L. "Buddy" Shaw of Shreveport, who like Smith was an educator.

In 2008, Thompson was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 4th congressional district. The seat opened when the incumbent Jim McCrery stepped down to become a lobbyist. Thompson ran third in the primary, and the position eventually went to the Republican physician and businessman John Fleming of Minden.

In the spring of 2012, Representative Thompson worked to kill an anti-bullying bill sponsored by Patricia Smith, a Democrat from Baton Rouge. Conservative opponents to the legislation claimed that the measure is at odds with freedom of speech rulings by the United States Supreme Court. Thompson offered an amendment, which removed those sections of the bill that specify prohibitions against bullying in regard to sexual orientation, disabilities, and race. Smith said that the Thompson amendment effectively killed the focus of the legislation, and she withdrew it from further consideration.

Thompson and his wife, the former Toni Estelle Hurst (born November 30, 1967), reside in Benton, the location of the Bossier Parish Court House. They are members of the large Cypress Baptist Church there.