Jan Martin
Jan is not only Co-Owner of First3 Personal Protection, but owns and operates Laser Hair Removal Therapy & Facial Aesthetics in Lufkin, Texas. She is a Board Certified Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. She obtained her undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1986. Jan earned her Master of Science in Nursing degree along with her Family Nurse Practitioner degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas in 2007. She is also a Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist. Her 37 years of nursing experience encompasses medical aesthetics, open-heart surgery, pediatric surgery, ICU and Community Health.
Jan loves the outdoors, especially hiking, biking, gardening and shooting. She is certified with the NRA to teach Pistol and Rifle and is an NRA Range Safety Officer. She is certified through Texas DPS to teach the License to Carry course and is the Instructor and Facilitator of A Girl and A Gun Women’s Shooting League in Lufkin which is part of a national organization. She has had extensive instructor level training. She had taken advanced courses from nationally well known instructors such as Tatiana Whitlock, Adam Winch, Russel Anthon, Brian Hill, Shelley Hill, Lou Ann Hamblin, Scott Jedlinski, and Tom Givens. She is also an Image Based Decisional Drills (IBDD) Instructor and Deliberate Coaching Instructor through Shelley and Brian Hill and Certified RangeMaster Instructor. Jan is a Certified NRA Pistol and Rifle Instructor as well as a Chief Range Safety Officer. She is an avid competitor in 3 Gun, USPSA (and a USPSA Range Safety Officer), Steel Challenge, IDPA, and has earned Top Shot in her Sniper Field Craft Course, hitting targets out to 2003 yards in September 2022.
Jan is also very involved with her community and she is a board member of the Family Crisis Center and Harold's House. She is very passionate about helping women learn the basics of safe firearm handling skills and marksmanship. Jan believes we need to be our own first responders when that need arises.