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The Law Center takes pride in the
many accomplishments of our
distinguished alumni and others
among the Law Center family and
recognition in the following
categories:
Annual
Distinguished Alumni
1990
the late Dr. Jesse N. Stone, Jr.,
50, Shreveport, Louisiana
1991
Chancellor Freddie Pitcher, Jr.,
73, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1992
Senator Cleo Fields, 87, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana
1993
Senator Charles D. Jones, 75,
Monroe, Louisiana
1994
The late Justice Revius O. Ortique,
Jr., 56, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995
State Representative Willie Hunter,
Jr., 77, Shreveport, Louisiana
1996
the late Audrey D. Leblanc, 58,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1997
Walter C. Dumas, 69, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
1998
the late Thelma Quince Colbert, 75,
Dallas, Texas
1999
Harry Cantrell, 81, New Orleans,
Louisiana
2000
Ben Cannon, 82, Washington, D.C.
2001
John F. K. Belton, 90, Ruston,
Louisiana
2002
Allen, 80, and Janice Myles, 87,
Plaquemine, Louisiana
2003
State Representative Willie Hunter,
Jr., 77; Monroe, Louisiana; Michael
A. Mitchell, 78, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana; Bobby Stromile, 75,
Bossier City, Louisiana
2004
Judge Wayne Salvant, 74, Fort
Worth, Texas
2005
Judge Felicia Toney Williams,80,
Tallulah, Louisiana
Kenneth Glover, 75, Lakeland,
Florida
Outstanding Service Award
recipient
2006
No Award Given
2007
John M. Clark, 78,
Atlanta, Georgia
2008
Judge Fred Tinsley,
72, Dallas County, Texas
2009
Sonya Hoskins, 92,
Dallas, Texas
Monica Azare, 94,
New York, New York
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot,
89, Bentonville, Arkansas
Timothy W. Hardy,
81, New Orleans, Louisiana
Honorable Joseph L.
Waitz, Jr., 86, Houma, Louisiana
Hall of
Fame Inductees
2003
Inductees
MURPHY W. BELL, ESQ., 57
WALTER C. DUMAS, ESQ., 69
EUGENE P. GENE CICARDO, SR., 73,
Posthumously
AUDREY DASTE LEBLANC, 58,
Posthumously
HONORABLE CHARLES D. JONES, 75
ETTA KAY HEARN, ESQ., 69
JOHNNIE A. JONES, SR., ESQ., 53
JUSTICE REVIUS O. ORTIQUE, JR., 56
CHANCELLOR FREDDIE PITCHER, JR., 73
DR. JESSE NEALAND STONE, JR., 50,
Posthumously
PROFESSOR CLYDE TIDWELL, 66
2004 Inductees
WALTER LEE BAILEY, JR., 65
JUDGE CURTIS CALLOWAY, 65
THELMA QUINCE COLBERT, 75
THOMAS N. TODD, 63
P. SPENCER-TORRY, 70
RICHARD RICKY WARD, 80
MARION OVERTON WHITE, 63
2005 Inductees
JUDGE JAMES BEST, 86
JUDGE JANICE CLARK, 76
MAYOR MELVIN KIP HOLDEN, 85
DEAN VANUE LACOUR
JUDGE PAUL LYNCH, 62, Posthumously
RICHARD MILLSPAUGH, 51
2006 Inductees
STATE SENATOR CLEO
FIELDS, 87
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
WILLIE HUNTER, JR., 77
CLYDE LAIN, II, ESQ.,
72
STATE SENATOR ROB
MARIONNEAUX, 95
U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE
LOUIS MOORE, JR., 72
JACQUELINE SCOTT,
ESQ., 85
JUDGE FELICIA TONEY
WILLIAMS, 80
2007 Inductees
ANNETTE EDDIE-CALLAGAIN,
ESQ., 81
BRACE B. GODFREY,
JR., ESQ., 85
ERNEST JOHNSON, ESQ.,
76
JUDGE ETHEL SIMMS
JULIEN, 82
CHRIS J. ROY, JR.,
ESQ., 87
W. JAMES SINGLETON,
ESQ., 73
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
T. TAYLOR TOWNSEND, 89
2008 Inductees
CANCELLED
60TH
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
2009 Inductees
S. P. DAVIS, ESQ.,
73
ISAAC HENDERSON,
ESQ., 59
GAIL MCKAY, ESQ., 78
JUDGE WAYNE SALVANT,
74
JUDGE ZORRAINE ZOEY
WAGUESPACK, 88
Golden
Alumni
Southern University Law Center
initiated the recognition of those
who have graduated 50 years of more
during the 2005 Commencement. We
salute these legal pioneers for what
they have contributed to the legal
profession and the Law Center:
Class of 1950
St. Elmo Johnson
Admitted February 19,
1951
New Orleans attorney
(Died November 1982)
Alvin P. Jones
Admitted June 15, 1950
New Orleans attorney
(Died October 11, 1973)
Alex L. Pitcher, Jr.
Admitted June 15, 1950
Noted civil rights attorney; former
NAACP branch president left Baton
Rouge in 1961 for San Francisco,
California, where he continued his
law practice and was elected
president of the San Francisco NAACP
branch
(Died January 6, 2000)
Jesse N.
Stone, Jr.
Admitted June 15, 1950
Shreveport civil rights attorney and
educator; former Dean of SU School
of Law; ad hoc Justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court; first
President, Southern University
System; former member of the SU
Board of Supervisors; Inducted into
the SULC Alumni Hall of Fame in 2003
(Died May 14, 2001)
Leroy
White
Admitted June 15, 1950
Baton Rouge attorney/former SU law
professor; retired after more than
30 years with the Internal Revenue
Service
Class of 1951
Leonard P. Avery
Admitted June 18, 1951
Retired assistant U.S. attorney in
the Eastern District of Louisiana;
former assistant district attorney
in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana,
expert in collections judgments
(Died October 24, 1991)
Ellyson Dyson
Admitted June 15, 1950
Attorney, Retired educator
Franklinton, Louisiana
(Died
March 22, 2009)
Richard
Millspaugh
Admitted June 18, 1951
Opelousas City Attorney for more
than 30 years; first black resident
to register to vote in Opelousas,
Louisiana; former Grand Polemarch,
Kappa Alpha Psi, Inducted into the
SULC Alumni
(Died
May 29, 2008)
Class of 1952
Bruce Bell
Admitted June 17, 1952
Baton Rouge attorney; practiced with
his brother Murphy Bell, a 1958 Law
Center graduate
(Died February 26, 1964)
Albion
Ricard
Admitted June 17, 1952
New Orleans attorney
(Died January 2, 1994)
Antoine
M. Trudeau
Admitted June 17, 1952
New Orleans civil rights attorney
(Died October 19, 1978)
Freddie
B. Warren, Jr
Admitted June 17, 1952
New Orleans attorney
(Died April 1, 1997)
Class of 1953
Johnnie A. Jones, Sr.
Admitted June 11, 1953
Baton Rouge civil rights attorney,
former State Representative;
Inducted into the SULC Alumni Hall
of Fame in 2003
Class of 1954
Prudhomme Dejoie
Admitted June 11, 1954
New Orleans attorney, relocated to
Chicago
(Died March 13, 1991)
Wilmon Richardson
Admitted February 18, 1954
Baton Rouge attorney and businessman
(Died September 3, 1975)
Chris
Roggerson, Jr.
Admitted June 11, 1954
Retired as senior federal executive
as lead counsel of Board of Veterans
Appeal; former supervising attorney
of the U.S. Employment Opportunity
Commission, former deputy director
to Secretary in the U.S. Department
for Health, Education, and Welfares
Office of Civil Rights and former
staff director of Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas.
(Died March 8, 2005)
Class of 1955
Leo F. McDaniel
Admitted June 10, 1955
Shreveport attorney
(Died January 15, 1968)
Norbert
Rayford
Admitted June 10, 1955
Retired administrative law judge for
the Louisiana State Department of
Labor, Workers Compensation.
Formerly practiced in Washington,
D.C., and in Chicago, Illinois.
Returned to Baton Rouge in 1973 for
a position as assistant professor of
law at Southern; former assistant
city prosecutor; one of the first
com-missioners of East Baton Rouge
Parish
(Died March 11, 2005)
Class of 1956
Justice Revius O.
Ortique, Jr.
Admitted June 12,
1956
(Retired)
Louisiana Supreme
Court
(Died June 22, 2008)
Mary Gloria Lawson
Admitted June 12,
1956
First
African-American woman admitted to
the Louisiana Bar
(Died January 9,
1980)
Class of 1957
Murphy W. Bell
Admitted June 12,
1957
Baton Rouge pioneer
civil rights attorney
(Died June 11, 2008)
Lawrence A. Wheeler
Admitted June 12,
1957
Private New Orleans
criminal law attorney
(Died April 14, 2005)
Class of 1958
Gwendolyn B. Crockett
Admitted June 12,
1958
Retired September 30,
2005
Former SULC
instructor, director of Legal Aid
Society of Baton Rouge, former
attorney for U.S. Department of
Labor and U.S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission, and practiced law
in Washington, D.C., as president of
Crockett & Johnson PC.
Nathaniel Gales, III
Admitted June 12,
1958
U.S. Marine veteran
and served in the JAG Corps
Audrey Daste LeBlanc
Admitted June 12,
1958
SULC executive
assistant to the Chancellor and
director of academic support
programs; and former assistant to
Southern University System President
Jesse N. Stone, Jr.
(Died 1997)
Class of 1959
Samuel Dickens
Admitted June 8, 1959
Private practice in
Baton Rouge and served as an
investigator for the East Baton
Rouge Parish District Attorneys
office.
(Died November 15,
2000)
Isaac B. Henderson
Admitted February 17,
1959
Criminal and civil
law practitioner in Louisiana and
Texas.
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