Jana Naretha Anne Stewart (born c. 1987) is an Australian politician and former public servant. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was appointed as a Senator for Victoria in April 2022, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Kimberley Kitching.

Stewart is an Aboriginal Australian of the Muthi Muthi and Wamba-Wamba peoples.^[2] Her great-grandmother Alice Kelly was a custodian of Lake Mungo in New South Wales and was involved in negotiations over the Lake Mungo remains.^[3]

Stewart was born around 1987^[1] and grew up in Melbourne and Swan Hill, Victoria.^[4] She is the oldest of six children and experienced family violence as a child. She attended "at least a dozen" primary schools, and was the only Indigenous student at her high school to finish year 12.^[3] She completed a master's degree in clinical family therapy at La Trobe University.^[5]

Prior to entering politics, Stewart worked as a family therapist, university lecturer, and policy adviser on Aboriginal affairs and child protection.^[5] She worked for Victorian state Aboriginal affairs minister Natalie Hutchins on treaty negotiations.^[3] She was a later a deputy secretary of the Victorian Department of Justice focusing on Stolen Generations reparations.^[6]

Jana is partnered with Marcus Stewart, former Co-Chair of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria.^[12][13]

She and her partner have two children, Jude and Ari.^[14][15]