Jack Riggs | |
Order: | 38th |
Office: | Lieutenant Governor of Idaho |
Term Start: | January 30, 2001 |
Term End: | January 6, 2003 |
Governor: | Dirk Kempthorne |
Predecessor: | Butch Otter |
Successor: | Jim Risch |
State Senate1: | Idaho |
District1: | 4th |
Term Start1: | December 1, 1996 |
Term End1: | December 1, 2000 |
Predecessor1: | Mary Lou Reed |
Successor1: | Kathleen Sims |
Birth Place: | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Children: | Peter Riggs |
Education: | University of Idaho (BS), University of Washington (MD) |
Jack Timothy Riggs (born 1954) is an American physician, businessman, and politician from Idaho who served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2001 to 2003.
Riggs worked as a physician in Coeur d'Alene. He has owned and operated his own real estate company, JaxGroup & JaxLand Real Estate, since 2007.
Riggs also worked as CEO of Pita Pit USA, Inc. from 2005, when it acquired the Pita Pit system (franchise) in the U.S., until 2018.[1]
Riggs was unopposed in the Republican primary.[2] Riggs defeated Democratic incumbent Mary Lou Reed and Ust candidate Charles Eberle with 51% of the vote in the general election.[3] He was re-elected in 1998 and 2000.[4] [5]
He was appointed lieutenant governor by Governor Dirk Kempthorne in January 2001 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of longtime Lieutenant Governor Butch Otter, who won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 2000 election.
Riggs ran for a full term in 2002 but was defeated by State Senator Jim Risch in the Republican primary, ending his tenure as lieutenant governor.[6]
His son, Peter Riggs, served in the Idaho Legislature.[7]