A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, canonist, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, counsellor, solicitor, legal executive, or public servant preparing, interpreting and applying law, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary. Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who hire lawyers to perform legal services.
Mandeville is a small city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 11,560 at the 2010 census. Mandeville is located on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12. It is across the lake from the city of New Orleans and its southshore suburbs. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan area.
Louisiana is a state in the Deep South region of the South Central United States. It is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties. The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans.
Covington is a city in, and the parish seat of, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,765 at the 2010 census. It is located at a fork of the Bogue Falaya and the Tchefuncte River.
St. Paul's School is a private all-boys Lasallian high school, located in Covington, Louisiana just to the north of New Orleans, United States. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, the school is run by the Christian Brothers and is one of the 1,000 Lasallian schools in more than 80 countries. It is part of 300 years of history originating from the founding of the Christian Brother Schools by Saint Jean Baptiste de La Salle. In 2015, the United States Department of Education recognized St. Paul's as a Blue Ribbon School.
A bachelor's degree or baccalaureate is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years. In some institutions and educational systems, some bachelor's degrees can only be taken as graduate or postgraduate degrees after a first degree has been completed. In countries with qualifications frameworks, bachelor's degrees are normally one of the major levels in the framework, although some qualifications titled bachelor's degrees may be at other levels and some qualifications with non-bachelor's titles may be classified as bachelor's degrees.
Blossman is a member of Victims and Citizens Against Crime, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. He is a past chairman of the Boy Scouts of America. Blossman is a member of the board of directors of the Covington-based Parish National Bank. He is also a member of the American Heart Association and the Louisiana Bone Marrow Registry.
Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It covers an area of 630 square miles (1,600 km2) with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet. Some shipping channels are kept deeper through dredging. It is roughly oval in shape, about 40 miles (64 km) from west to east and 24 miles (39 km) from south to north.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose goal is to help all children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with volunteer mentors.
The Boy Scouts of America is the largest scouting organization and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with about 2.3 million youth participants and about one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, about 110 million Americans participated in BSA programs at some time in their lives. BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922.
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with its rival, the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.
A nonpartisan blanket primary is a primary election in which all candidates for the same elected office, regardless of respective political party, run against each other at once, instead of being segregated by political party. It is also known as a jungle primary, or qualifying primary. In most cases there are two winners who advance to the general election, which must be a normal first-past-the-post election, in this case it is called a top-two primary.
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators. Members of each house are elected from single-member districts of roughly equal populations.
The incumbent is the current holder of an office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent(s). For example, in the 2017 Hungarian presidential election, János Áder was the incumbent, because he had been the president in the term before the term for which the election sought to determine the president. A race without an incumbent is referred to as an open seat.
John F. Schwegmann is a Metairie businessman, who was elected as a Democrat to the Louisiana Public Service Commission in 1981 to succeed his father, John G. Schwegmann. In 2002, Schwegmann declared himself an independent. He served for 15 years on the PSC, the public body which regulates rates of utilities and motor carriers. In 1996, however, he was unseated by the young Covington Republican Jack Arthur "Jay" Blossman Jr.
Metairie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, and is part of the New Orleans metropolitan area. With a population at the 2010 census of 138,481, Metairie is the largest community in Jefferson Parish and the fifth-largest CDP in the United States. It is an unincorporated area that would be Louisiana's fourth-largest city if it were incorporated. The zip codes that serve the community are 70001–70006.
Blossman beat Schwegmann again in 2002, 104,963 votes (68 percent) to 49,643 ballots (32 percent). It was in the October 2002 primary that Schwegmann was first listed as an Independent or officially "No Party" on the Louisiana ballot.
In 2003, Blossman announced that he would seek to become the Republican gubernatorial consensus candidate to succeed term-limited GOP Governor Murphy J. "Mike" Foster. Blossman calls himself a "Reagan conservative." He opposed the since repealed Stelly Plan, which increased property taxes on most middle-class families and was named for its author, former state Representative Vic Stelly of Lake Charles.
However, other Republicans wanted to run as well, including former Governor David C. Treen, who in retirement had settled in Blossman's own St. Tammany Parish. Treen, after testing the waters, never filed his papers to make the race. Two other Republicans continued in the race: (1) state Representative Huntington B. "Hunt" Downer Jr., of Houma, the seat of Terrebonne Parish, and (2) Bobby L. Jindal, an Indian-American health-care specialist then of Baton Rouge and the favorite of Governor Foster, U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush, and much of the Republican leadership. The Republican hopefuls risked dividing their party's base to such an extent that two Democrats, and no Republican candidate, might have been thrust into the general election under Louisiana's unique nonpartisan blanket primary.
Blossman found himself in hot water with outgoing Governor Foster, who lashed out against the public service commissioner on radio. Blossman had run a television commercial which blamed state leaders for not funding a DNA program that could have led to the earlier arrest of a suspected South Louisiana serial killer. Foster said that he considered that his criticism could aid Blossman's campaign by giving it more exposure, but the governor spoke out and accused Blossman of running an offensive advertisement in bad taste.
Blossman spent more than $1 million in his race, much of that amount consisting of his own loans to his campaign. By late summer, Blossman had $613,000 on hand. He spent $552,000 in the second quarter of 2003, including the repayment of $285,000 in loans to himself. He raised $168,000 from others in the third quarter, $512,000 since January 1, 2003.
When Blossman failed to make the expected traction in the polls, he announced that former Republican Congressman Clyde C. Holloway of Forest Hill in Rapides Parish would join him on an unofficial "ticket" as the lieutenant governor's candidate. Candidates had stopped forming such combinations after the 1971 Democratic primaries. Holloway was widely identified as a social conservative by his voting record. He had represented the heavily Democratic and since defunct Eighth Congressional District from 1987-1993. Holloway had left Congress four years before Blossman joined the PSC. In his bid for lieutenant governor, Holloway stressed the need to halt the loss of manufacturing jobs from Louisiana and to boost the low-wage base in many parishes.
Blossman continued to sink in the opinion polls, was denied a seat in a candidate debate forum, withdrew from the gubernatorial race, and endorsed Downer, who contested Jindal for a potential but not assured GOP slot in the general election. Earlier, Blossman had called Downer "a liberal Democrat", but he then said that only Downer, among the Republican candidates, could actually win the general election. Blossman said that Jindal, who is seven years younger than Blossman, was at that time too young and inexperienced to prevail in the governor's race.
Jindal went on to lead the pack of candidates and was placed into a second round of balloting with the top Democrat, outgoing Lieutenant Governor (and former member of the PSC as well) Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette. Blanco in turn defeated Jindal, 52-48 percent.
Holloway remained in the lieutenant governor's race after Blossman dropped his candidacy. He finished a weak second to Democrat Mitchell Landrieu of the New Orleans Landrieu family. Landrieu in fact won the second office directly in the primary. Also in the lieutenant governor's race was a former holder of the office, Melinda Schwegmann, wife of Blossman's former PSC opponent, John F. Schwegmann.
Leaving the PSC
Blossman had planned to seek a third term on the PSC but withdrew from consideration in July 2008, after an ethics complaint had been filed against him. Blossman also said that he wished to spend more time with his family and his family-owned bank. The Louisiana Ethics Board charged Blossman with improperly sending letters on PSC letterhead stationery to trucking company executives, whose businesses are regulated by the PSC, asking that they meet with a salesman friend of his who was offering a new product of potential interest to them. Blossman denied having broken any laws in sending out the letters.[1]
Former Commissioner John F. Schwegmann, using the "No Party" or Independent label, led a field of four candidates in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 4, 2008. Schwegmann led in the primary with 61,711 (41.8 percent) to the 34,206 ballots (23.1 percent) for Republican Eric F. Skrmetta of Metairie. The other candidates were populist Democrat-turned-Republican former State Representative Kenneth L. Odinet Sr., of Arabi, with 33,470 (22.6 percent), and "No Party" Bruce C. Kincade, with 18,440 (12.5 percent).[2] In the November 4 general election, Skrmetta easily defeated Schwegmann, 222,268 (60 percent) to 149,220 (40 percent).[3]
Oddly in April 2009, some three months after Blossman left the PSC, Clyde Holloway won a special election to fill a vacancy on the body in a neighboring district.
In December 2018, Blossman endorsed a second term for Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards, who previously appointed Blossman to fill a vacancy on the LSU Board of Supervisors.[4]
Suzanne Haik Terrell is the first and only Republican woman elected to statewide office in Louisiana. A practicing attorney, Terrell was the state's final commissioner of elections, a position which she held from 2000 to 2004. In 2002, she was the Republican nominee for United States Senate, losing a hotly contested and closely watched race against incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu. In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush appointed Terrell to a position as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Terrell is currently a partner with the New Orleans firm of Hangartner, Rydberg, and Terrell.
Clyde Cecil Holloway was an American politician, small business owner, and member of the Republican Party who – at his death – served as one of five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. After seven years in office he did not seek reelection to the PSC in the primary election held on November 8, 2016, in conjunction with the presidential election.
Melinda B. Schwegmann is a former lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With service from 1992 to 1996, she is the first woman to have held the position. She made an unsuccessful run for governor in 1995. In 1997, she won a special election to the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 98 in the Orleans Parish Lakefront, a predominantly African-American area, previously represented for fifteen years by a conservative Republican Garey Forster. Schwegmann was elected to a full House term in 1999. In 2003, she relinquished the seat, which was dismembered by reapportionment. Formerly a member of the Democratic Party, she switched affiliation in 2003 to the Republican Party in a fruitless effort to regain the lieutenant governor's position.
Edward Clark Gaudin is a Baton Rouge attorney who served for twenty-one years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as the first Republican member from East Baton Rouge Parish in the 20th century.
Louis Joseph Lambert Jr., is a Louisiana attorney, businessman, and politician. He served as a former member and chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and was elected to the Louisiana State Senate, serving one term 1972-1974, and again from 1994 to 2004.
Bernard John Bagert Jr., known as Ben Bagert, is an American attorney based in New Orleans who formerly served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature. Bagert's peers have consistently voted him as a “Top Lawyer” in the New Orleans area in a variety of fields. He enjoys the highest possible rating conferred by Martindale-Hubbell for ethical standards and legal ability.
Roy McArthur Hopkins, known as Hoppy Hopkins, was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 1 in northern Caddo Parish and two precincts in northern Bossier Parish from 1988 until his Thanksgiving Day death after a long illness of bone cancer. In 1966, Hopkins moved his family to Oil City and made his living there as an automobile dealer.
Jimmy Dale Long Sr. was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 23 from 1968 until 2000. He was the "dean" of the Louisiana House when he returned to private life. A recognized authority on educational policy, for sixteen years, he chaired the House Education Committee. Shreveport The ShreveportTimes named Long "One of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century in North Louisiana." He was a member of the Long political dynasty.
Foster Lonnie Campbell Jr., is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the U.S. state of Louisiana. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 2002.
Michael John Michot, known as Mike Michot, is a Republican former member of the Louisiana State Senate. He represented District 23 from 2000 to 2012. He was the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Michot was unopposed for his third Senate term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. He served in District 43 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2000. He was elected as a Democrat to the House but switched parties on June 23, 1997, not quite midway in his term.
J. Lomax Jordan, Jr., known as Max Jordan, is an attorney from Lafayette, Louisiana, who served as a Republican in the Louisiana State Senate from 1992 to 2000. He was unseated for the District 23 position, which encompassed portions of Lafayette and Acadia parishes, in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by then State Representative Michael J. Michot, also a Republican.
Max Tatum Malone is the president of Malone Oil and Gas Exploration Company in Shreveport and a former Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, in which he served from 1996 until January 14, 2008. Term-limited in the District 37 seat, which includes portions of Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwestern Louisiana, Malone could not seek a fourth term in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City, who was term-limited himself as a state House member, and Montgomery's former House colleague, B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, a retired Shreveport educator and school board member. Shaw defeated Montgomery, 57-43 percent.
Bernice Lorene Shaw, known as B. L. "Buddy" Shaw, was an educator from Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for Caddo and Bossier parishes in the northwestern corner of the state.
Gary James Beard is a conservative Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from East Baton Rouge Parish who was defeated in his bid for lieutenant governor in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. Beard ran third in the race with 130,935 votes. The incumbent, Democrat Mitch Landrieu, later the mayor of New Orleans, was reelected with 57 percent of the vote. Also running was a second Republican, Country music singer Sammy Kershaw of Abbeville in Vermilion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, who drew 30 percent of the ballots.
Francis Charles McMains, Jr., known as Chuck McMains, is a Baton Rouge attorney and businessman who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 2001 from District 69 in East Baton Rouge Parish. In 1996, McMains made an unsuccessful race for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.
Kay Kellogg Katz is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, having represented from 1999 to 2012 District 16 in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
James Wilton Tucker, known as Jim Tucker, is the former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives who was allied with then Governor Bobby Jindal. An investment banker from the Terrytown section of the New Orleans metropolitan area, Tucker's former House District 86 includes precincts from both Jefferson and Orleans parishes. He held the House seat from his victory in a special election on March 17, 2001, until 2012. The vastly reconfigured district in 2012 will include only Tangipahoa Parish.
Troyce Eual Guice was a businessman in northeastern Louisiana who twice ran for the United States Senate in campaigns thirty years apart, 1966 and 1996. A conservative Democrat, Guice later moved to nearby Natchez, Mississippi. There he joined the Republican Party and became a donor.
Robert Warren Williams, known as Bo Williams, is a Republican former mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, having served a single term from 1994 to 1998.
↑ Louisiana Secretary of State website: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2008-11-22.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
↑ Louisiana secretary of state, Louisiana general election returns, November 4, 2008: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2010-02-11.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
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