Jerome M. Hughes is a Minnesota politician, a former legislator, and a former President of the Minnesota Senate. Hughes was elected to the Senate in 1966, and served for 26 years in the body. He became chair of the education committee in 1973, and was elected President of the Senate in 1983, a position he would hold—save for during a special session in 1987—for the remainder of his time in office.

Hughes retired from the Senate in 1993.