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The office of attorney general of Louisiana (French: Procureur général de la Louisiane) has existed since the colonial period. Under Article IV, Section 8 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the attorney general is elected statewide for a four-year term and is the chief legal officer of the state. Additionally, "the attorney general shall have ...
Jeffrey Martin Landry (born December 23, 1970) is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2024 as the 57th governor of Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th attorney general of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024 and as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 2011 to 2013.
Lawyers. Bettie Runnels and Rose Cara Falls Bres (1898): [1] [2] First female lawyers in Louisiana. Bres would become the first female lawyer to plead cases before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Irene J. Barrios (1922): [3] First Latino American female lawyer in Louisiana. Marian Berkett (1937): [4] [5] [6] First ...
The United States District Court for the District of Louisiana was established on April 8, 1812, by 2 Stat. 701, [1] [2] several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times. It was first subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts on March 3, 1823, by ...
Louisiana Governor-Elect Jeff Landry and Sharon Landry sit for an interview in Lafayette, LA. Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. Other senior staff members named Thursday include:
Name [2] Start date [2] End date [2] Last election Louisiana State Constitution of 1812: 1st Louisiana Legislature [Wikidata] 1812-07 2nd Louisiana Legislature [Wikidata] 1814-11 3rd Louisiana Legislature [Wikidata] 1817-11 4th Louisiana Legislature [Wikidata] 1819-01 5th Louisiana Legislature [Wikidata] 1821-11 6th Louisiana Legislature [Wikidata]
Five governors have served nonconsecutive terms. Andre B. Roman, Francis T. Nicholls, and Jimmie Davis each served two non-consecutive terms, while Earl Long and Edwin Edwards both served in three distinct stints. In the event of a vacancy, the President of the Senate originally acted as governor. [31] The 1845 constitution created the office ...
In their complaint, they note that the statute asserts that "James Madison, the fourth President of the United States of America, stated that '(w)e have staked the whole future of our new nation ...