She was elected from Senate District 2 in a special election held on October 2,2010,to replace Ann Duplessis,who resigned to take a position in the administration of MayorMitch Landrieu. Displaced by redistricting,Willard-Lewis ran in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22,2011,for the District 3 seat in the state Senate. She was instead defeated by another Democrat,the incumbent senator,Jean-Paul Morrell,who polled 11,280 votes (53.3 percent) to Willard-Lewis' 9,911 votes (46.8 percent).[1]
Willard-Lewis also represented District 100 in the Louisiana House from 1993 to 2000,when she was elected to the New Orleans City Council. She left the council in 2010 under term limits. She was succeeded in the House by Pat Swilling,a former National Football League linebacker.
In 2007,when Oliver Thomas was eliminated from an at-large seat on the New Orleans City Council because of conviction for bribery,Willard-Lewis attempted to win the at-large seat but was defeated by then-former Councilwoman Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson in a special election which received national attention because the result changed the racial majority of the council.[4]
Willard-Lewis participates in a number of community organizations,including the NAACP. She attends Saint Raymond's Roman Catholic Church. By profession she is a public relations consultant for Lakeland Hospital. She has two children.[6]
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