Webster Parish is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The seat of the parish is Minden.
Bossier City is a city in Bossier Parish in the northwestern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana in the United States. It is the second most populous city in the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area. In 2020 it had a total population of 62,701 up from 61,315 in 2010. It is on the eastern bank of the Red River and closely tied economically and socially to its larger sister city Shreveport on the opposite bank. Bossier City is the largest city in Louisiana that is not the parish seat.
Cullen is a town just south of Springhill in northern Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,163 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Springhill is a city in northern Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,279 at the 2010 census, a decrease of 160 since 2000. Springhill is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area though it is thirty miles north of Minden, the seat of government of Webster Parish. The Springhill population is 34 percent African American, compared to 25 percent minority in 2000.
The Paul M. Hebert Law Center, often styled "LSU Law", is a public law school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is part of the Louisiana State University System and located on the main campus of Louisiana State University.
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.
Henry Newton Brown Jr., is a former Louisiana appellate judge, legal lecturer, and former district attorney. He is serving his third 10-year elected term on the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport, having been elected in 1990, 2000, and 2010.
James Edwin Bolin, Sr. was an American jurist and politician who served as a judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal. He was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Minden, the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
The Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal are the intermediate appellate courts for the state of Louisiana.
Ford Edwards Stinson, Sr. was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1940–1944 and again from 1952-1972. In his last legislative term from 1968–1972, he served in a two-member district covering Bossier Parish with fellow Democrat Walter O. Bigby. Prior to 1968, he had been the only Bossier Parish representative in the Louisiana House. Stinson, a native and resident of the parish seat of Benton, did not run again in 1972 and was succeeded by fellow Benton Democrat Jesse C. Deen.
Jefferson Rowe Thompson, known as Jeff R. Thompson, is a judge Louisiana's Second Circuit Court of Appeal, previously served as a district judge for the 26th Judicial District Court for Bossier and Webster parishes, who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 8, a position which he held from January 2012 to January 2015.
Harlie Eugene Reynolds, known as Gene Reynolds, is a retired educator from Dubberly, Louisiana, who is a Democratic former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 10. In 2016, his colleagues named him the House Democratic Leader, in which capacity he succeeded former Representative John Bel Edwards of Tangipahoa Parish, the incoming governor of Louisiana.
Jeffrey Paul Victory is a lawyer from Shreveport, Louisiana. He served from 1995 to 2014 as an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. His former 2nd Judicial District embraces eleven parishes in northwestern Louisiana. Victory was a member of the Democratic Party who became a Republican.
Scott Jackson Crichton is a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was a judge of the Louisiana 1st Judicial District Court in Shreveport from 1991 to 2014. Crichton was elected to the district court in 1990 as a Democrat. In 2014, he ran without opposition to succeed the retiring Justice Jeffrey P. Victory for the District 2 seat on the seven-member state Supreme Court. The nonpartisan blanket primary for the position was held on November 4, 2014 in eleven northwest Louisiana parishes.
Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College (NLTCC) is a public technical college in Minden, Louisiana. In addition to the main campuses, extension campuses are in Mansfield, and Shreveport.
Charles Allen Marvin, known as Corky Marvin, was an American district attorney and a state circuit court judge in North Louisiana from 1971 until his retirement in 1999.
Dorothy Garrett Smith was the first woman to have served as president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, which establishes and monitors education policy. Smith was the president from December 1989 until her sudden death eight months later during the administration of Governor Buddy Roemer. She represented nine parishes in northwestern Louisiana: Beauregard, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, Red River, Sabine, Vernon, and her own Webster.
Harvey Locke Carey was an attorney, United States Navy officer, and politician from, principally, Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. He married Katie Elizabeth Drew of Minden in nearby Webster Parish.
James Michael Johnson is an American attorney, politician, and former talk radio host serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. First elected in 2016, he is also the vice chairman of the House Republican Conference. He previously served as chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress, and a coalition of socially- and fiscally-conservative members of the larger House Republican Conference.
