She and Jim McGeachin, her husband of 30 years, own and operate three businesses in the automotive industry, with stores in Idaho Falls and Boise. In 2012, she and her family renovated an historic building in downtown Idaho Falls and established the area’s only Irish restaurant, The Celt Pub & Grill. Janice and Jim have two children, Liza and James, who help manage their family businesses.
Janice is a proven conservative with an established track record of working with others to promote fiscal responsibility. As Chair of the Health & Welfare Committee, she worked to prevent the implementation of Obamacare in Idaho in 2012 by educating colleagues and the public of the devastating impacts of the law to the individual and to our business community. As Chair, she collaborated with House and Senate Leadership, the medical community, recipients, departments, agencies, and the Governor’s Office to reduce Medicaid costs across the board, avoiding deep cuts to particular programs when tax revenues came up short in 2011. Working with the Idaho Medical Association, Idaho Hospital Association, midwives, and clients, Rep. McGeachin was instrumental in the passage of the Midwifery Practice Act in 2010.
Janice is concerned about our growing national debt—now over $20 trillion—and the negative impact it has on our life, liberty, and prosperity. She is committed to promoting consistency among Republican leadership on fiscal responsibility and working to increase public awareness regarding our state and nation’s finances.
Janice enjoys skiing, hiking, and traveling.
Janice graduated from Skyline High School in 1981 and received her BSBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Arizona in 1985.
Janice is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. She has been involved in children and youth ministries and served as a Ruling Elder within the church.
Janice’s community service includes having served as the Chairman of the Board for the Idaho Innovation Center and as a Board Member for the Development Workshop and the Mountain River Valley American Red Cross. She is a member of the Idaho Falls Rotary Club, and was an active member of the Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce, and the United Way Disbursement Committee.
Janice was an elected State Representative from 2002-2012, and served on numerous committees including State Affairs, Revenue & Taxation, Judicial, Joint Finance and Appropriations (JFAC), and Health & Welfare where she served as the Chair. She also served on the Joint Millennium Fund Committee, state employee Change in Employee Compensation Committee, Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee, and the Health Care Task Force.
In addition to her service in the Idaho State Legislature, Janice serves as a Bonneville County Central Committee member, is a member of the Bonneville County Republican Women (and the Chair of Community Relations in 2002), and is the Bonneville County State Committee Woman. She is also a member of the Blaine County Republican Women.
Janice was proud to serve as the Bonneville County Chair and the 1st Vice State Chair for the Trump Idaho State Committee and as a Trump Delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Make Idaho Conservative Again!
SOLUTION: Bust up the bureaucracy which feeds into cronyism and corruption, so that ALL businesses are free to be productive, not just the politically connected.
SOLUTION: Let Idahoans keep more of their hard earned money in their pockets by reducing the sales tax and unemployment tax, eliminating the corporate income tax, and eliminating the special-interest tax incentives through which the government ‘picks winners and losers’.
SOLUTION: Give rural Idahoans their wealth-creating lives back and at the same time provide an increase to our school endowment fund.
SOLUTION: Let’s provide for the hopes and dreams of all our precious children by working with our businesses and educational institutions to develop apprenticeship programs so that our kids can stay in Idaho, obtain the skills they need for good-paying jobs, and eventually develop their own small businesses.
SOLUTION: Find free-market solutions for the delivery of healthcare which focus on the health and well-being of the individual, allow for greater options, and free up the current network system.
SOLUTION: Fight any and every encroachment on the 2nd Amendment, defend life from conception to natural death, and relentlessly push back against any encroachment on our land or constitutional rights.
While it is usually easy to identify problems such as tax rates being too high and healthcare being too expensive, it can often be more challenging to find meaningful solutions, but one such solution, which has already proven itself in Arizona, is the Universal Charitable Credit. The UCC, or Universal Charitable …
Common Core was implemented in Idaho as part of the attempt to receive federal dollars through the “Race to the Top” grant program There were several people responsible for getting Idaho into this mess including Gov. Butch Otter, Supt. Tom Luna, and then-Rep. Bob Nonini who was the Chairman of …
I greatly appreciate the kind words and thoughtful endorsement from Rep. Dorothy Moon. I look forward to serving her constituents in District 8 along with many other Idahoans from across our beautiful state.
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