Jewel Cianeh Howard Taylor is a Liberian politician and the current senior Senator from Bong County.
Career
In addition, she focused on educational, health and social projects. Taylor holds a graduate degree in banking and two bachelors" in banking and economics. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Business Administration program at Cuttington University in Liberia.
On December 21, 2011, she graduated from the Louise Arthur Grimes School of Law of the state-owned University of Liberia.
In February 2012, Taylor attempted to introduce legislation into the Liberian parliament that would have made homosexual activity a first degree felony carrying the death penalty as the maximum punishment. The legislation was not passed after President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made it clear she would not sign any such bill.
Membership
In 2005, Taylor was elected to the Senate of Liberia in Bong County as a member of the National Patriotic Party. Two days later, a public dispute arose in Bong County regarding honors allegedly given her. She was announced to be the new holder of the title "Madam Suakoko", an honorary Bong County title memorializing the namesake of the Suakoko District, but members of the group that had supposedly awarded her the title soon began denying that the award had been given by their group, saying that the meeting at which she was awarded the title was actually a meeting to help county residents overcome political differences.