Career
In 1995, she unsuccessfully sought the office of lieutenant governor, losing to Democratic future Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette. Krieger polled 211,520 votes (16 percent) in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995, for lieutenant governor, narrowly edging then State Representative Chris John of Crowley for the runoff (called general election in Louisiana) against Blanco. In the second balloting, Blanco defeated Krieger, 964,559 (652 percent) to 513,613 (348 percent).
In that same election, the Republican gubernatorial candidate Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Junior., defeated the Democrat Cleo Fields by nearly the same margin that Blanco had topped Krieger.
She is the chairman of the Slidell Symphony Society and has been active in bringing the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in the Saint Tammany Parish schools. Krieger unseated fellow Republican Edward C. Scogin, a 20-year House veteran, in the general election held on November 16, 1991.
On that same day, Edwin Washington Edwards defeated David Duke for the governorship. Krieger did not seek reelection in 1995 because of her race for lieutenant governor.
She was succeeded by Slidell trial lawyer Tom Thornhill.
In 1999, Thornhill declined to run again for state representative, and Krieger sought to return to the legislature. She did not recover from the loss for lieutenant governor in 1995 and was narrowly defeated by fellow Republican A. G. Crowe of Slidell, 4,349 (506 percent) to 4,249 (494 percent). He served District 76 for two terms before his election in 2007 to the Louisiana State Senate.
