Law Center News
Gov. John Bel Edwards to address 2016 SULC Commencement, May 7
Gov. John Bel Edwards will deliver the 2016 Commencement address for Southern University Law Center at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 7, in the F. G. Clark Activity Center on the Southern University Baton Rouge campus.
One hundred and sixty-five graduates are expected to receive the Juris Doctor Degree this spring.
On January 11, 2016, Governor Edwards was sworn in as the 56th Governor of Louisiana.
The governor grew up in Amite, Louisiana as one of eight children. With four Tangipahoa Parish sheriffs in his lineage, he learned the importance of public service at an early age.
Governor Edwards graduated in 1988 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. The governor served eight years as an Airborne Ranger on active duty with the United States Army and commanded a rifle company in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
He went on to graduate Order of the Coif from Louisiana State University Law Center and set up a civil law practice in his hometown of Amite. In 2008, he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 72, where he served for eight years until the voters of Louisiana elected him governor in November 2015.
Governor Edwards and his wife, First Lady Donna Edwards, have three children: Samantha Bel, Sarah Ellen, and John Miller.
For more information on the 2016 SULC Commencement, please contact Vice Chancellor for Student Services, Roederick White, (225) 771-3811.
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