Tim Stine

Timothy Drost Stine, known as Tim Stine (born October 26, 1956), is a businessman from his native Sulphur, Louisiana,^[1] who served from 1989 to 1996 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 33 in Calcasieu Parish in the southwestern portion of his state.^[2]

On October 1, 1988, Stine handily won a special election over two fellow Democrats, Raphael Anthony "Ray" Coltrin (1947-2010), an electrician who had served on the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, and lawyer Oliver "Jackson" Schrumpf, ^[3] for the right to succeed his brother, Dennis Stine, who had resigned to become state commissioner of administration under newly elected Governor Buddy Roemer.

Biography

Stine is the youngest of seven children of a Sulphur couple, Jackson W. Stine, who established Stine Lumber Company, and the former Doris Rita "DeeDee" Drost (1921–2010). As did his brother Dennis, Stine attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana and McNeese State University in Lake Charles.^[1] Stine is an officer in the family-owned Stine, Inc., along with his five brothers.^[1]

Stine is a Roman Catholic, a member of Rotary International, and a long-term advocate for the cause of the disabled. Prior to his legislative years, Stine was from 1986 to 1988 a member of the Sulphur City Council. He did not seek a third term in the House in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995; fellow Democrat, later Republican convert, Ronnie Johns, was handily elected to succeed Stine.^[4] The office of Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler lists Stine in August 2015 as a registered Democratic voter.^[5]

Stine and his wife, Jane Lynn, have three children, Jake, Amy, and Alice.^[1]

References