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She pushed successfully for funding to relocate the Northwest Louisiana Technical College in Minden to its new campus which opened in 2013 off the Interstate 20 service road.

She pushed successfully for funding to relocate the Northwest Louisiana Technical College in Minden to its new campus which opened in 2013 off the Interstate 20 service road.

​Doerge pulled strings to obtain special surgery in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], for a [[cerebral palsy]] patient, 5-year-old Jeremy Logan Curtis. Had she not acted, the child would have been a permanent invalid. The surgery was successful, and the child was thereafter able to walk and play and face a bright future.​

Doerge pulled strings to obtain special surgery in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], for a [[cerebral palsy]] patient, 5-year-old Jeremy Logan Curtis. Had she not acted, the child would have been a permanent invalid. The surgery was successful, and the child was thereafter able to walk and play and face a bright future.​

Doerge's ''alma mater'', NSU, inducted her into the College of Business Hall of Distinction. Her name is engraved on a plaque located in the foyer of Russell Hall.

Doerge's ''alma mater'', NSU, inducted her into the College of Business Hall of Distinction. Her name is engraved on a plaque located in the foyer of Russell Hall.

==Last reelection in 2007==​

==Last reelection, 2007==​

 

Doerge easily retained her seat in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. She received 6,681 votes (57 percent) to 4,133 (35 percent) for [[Ronnie Broughton]] of Minden, the then president of the Webster Parish School Board and a Republican who later left that party to become the state chairman of the [[Constitution Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/07/26/constitution-party-meets-possible-presidential-nominee/30705579/|title=Constitution Party meets possible presidential nominee|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 27, 2015}}</ref> An [[African-American]] candidate, Terrell Mendenhall of Cullen, south of Springhill, polled 915 ballots (8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 20, 2007.</ref>

Doerge easily retained her seat in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. She received 6,681 votes (57 percent) to 4,133 (35 percent) for [[Ronnie Broughton]] of Minden, the then president of the Webster Parish School Board and a Republican who later left that party to become the state chairman of the [[Constitution Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/07/26/constitution-party-meets-possible-presidential-nominee/30705579/|title=Constitution Party meets possible presidential nominee|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 27, 2015}}</ref> An [[African-American]] candidate, Terrell Mendenhall of Cullen, south of Springhill, polled 915 ballots (8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 20, 2007.</ref>