Jean-Michel Jacques

Jean-Michel Jacques (born 29 February 1968) is a French politician who has represented the 6th constituency of the Morbihan department in the National Assembly as a member of Renaissance (RE, formerly La République En Marche!) since 2017. He is a former military nurse with French Navy special forces, under the Special Operations Command.

Early life and career
Born in 1968 in Metz, Jacques grew up in Hagondange, a small town nearby, in Moselle. In 1988, at 18 years-old, he joined the French Navy; he specialised in military nursing, later passing selection for the Commandos Marine, the Special Operation Forces of the Navy. Jacques served for a total of 23 years with the Navy, also being a volunteer firefighter in Morbihan.

Following his retirement from the Navy, he kept working as a nurse. From 2014 to 2017, he held the mayorship of Brandérion, a small town northeast of Lorient, as a political independent.

He is deputy-president of the National Defence and Armed Forces Committee at the French National Assembly, member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and President of the "Major crisis and risks management" study group.

He was re-elected in the 2022 French legislative election.