--- type: Person title: "Sam Jenkins" description: "LA Senate District 39 — LA State Senate District 39" role: "LA Senate District 39" party: "D" level: "state" branch: "legislative" state: "LA" district: "LA State Senate District 39" represents: "us/states/la/districts/senate/39" tenure: start: "2024-01-08" current: true election: term_length: 2 term_limit: "varies" ids: person: "43ba6598-40df-47ae-a600-12109bdb6514" office: "60ec9587-ea4a-4a3d-a832-debb61e06ced" tenure: "662abf32-03c7-4ae9-8ddf-267683d7857f" jurisdiction: "179819bf-edc0-45ef-8af9-ff5c8ce35fc2" sources: - field: tenure source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20" - field: jurisdiction source: "SLDU (Census 2025)" confidence: official tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, la] timestamp: "2026-07-04" --- # Sam Jenkins Current LA Senate District 39 (LA State Senate District 39). Represents [LA State Senate District 39](/us/states/la/districts/senate/39.md). ## Sources - tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20 - jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025) Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).