BR businessman, former Tiger announces for 6th District
April 8, 2014Raceland voters extend recreation tax
April 8, 2014
Christopher Boudreaux, the 17th Judicial District’s chief public defender, announced his intention to run in the Nov. 4 election for Lafourche Parish’s Division D judgeship, which will be vacated by retiring Dist. Judge Ashly Bruce Simpson.
Boudreaux, the first to formally announce for Simpson’s seat, has held his current position since 2007 and spent more than 15 years in the office. He is a former assistant to the City of Thibodaux’s attorney.
“While I believe in being tough on crime, I also know that sometimes good people can make mistakes,” Boudreaux, 52, said in his announcement. “I have always strived to be professional, open minded and courteous to the people I have dealt with throughout my life and my law practice. As judge, I will be fair and impartial and I will continue to be professional, open minded, courteous and accommodating to all people.
“I am also a conservative Republican who cherishes the basic freedoms and human rights guaranteed to all in our Constitution.”
Candidate qualification is from Aug. 20-22. The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 6, and early voting runs from Oct. 21-28.
Boudreaux’s general practice focuses on family law, real estate, banking, collections, successions, personal injury, workers’ compensation and criminal defense.
“I have practiced before every level of state court in Louisiana, as well as the United States Supreme Court,” Boudreaux said. “I have handled thousands of cases both in and out of the courtroom.”
Boudreaux, also called “Chub,” received his law degree from Louisiana State University’s law school. While there, he was elected vice president of the Student Bar Association. From the university, the E.D. White graduate also earned a bachelor’s degree in education.
He served as a research attorney for former district and appellate judge Walter Lanier Jr. and for the late Louis J. Watkins Jr., with Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeals.
Boudreaux served on the State Juvenile Defender Advisory Committee, which aimed to address the quality of representation for troubled children, and was recognized with the state Bar Association’s 2011 Children’s Law Award.
Civically, Boudreaux has been active with the Thibodaux Jaycees, Thibodaux Kiwanis Club, St. Charles (Raceland) Volunteer Fire Department and the Creole Classic Charity Fishing Rodeo’s board of directors, he said.
“It has always been my desire to serve as judge,” Boudreaux said. “I was born, lived and worked my entire life in Lafourche Parish. I know that judges should have extensive life experience as well as in all areas of the law. As a young man going through school, I worked as a waiter, bartender, loading dock roustabout, farm hand and student research assistant.”
