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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 53
BY SENATOR LONG
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend Edwin A. Lombard upon being inducted into the Louisiana Political Hall of
Fame.
WHEREAS, Edwin Lombard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated
from Xavier University Preparatory School in New Orleans; and
WHEREAS, he was one of the first African Americans admitted to Tulane University
in New Orleans, where he was a Rockefeller Scholar and earned his Bachelor of Arts; and
WHEREAS, Edwin Lombard attended Southern University Law School in Baton
Rouge and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in Louisiana, where he was a
Roosevelt Fellow and earned his Juris Doctor; and
WHEREAS, in 1973, after being admitted to the Louisiana State Bar, Edwin
Lombard was elected as clerk of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, becoming one
of the youngest African-American elected officials for Orleans Parish; and
WHEREAS, also in 1973, he was selected as the Chief Election Officer for Orleans
Parish, becoming the first African American to hold this position in the South, serving until
2003; and
WHEREAS, in January 2003, Edwin Lombard was elected to the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeal in which he is currently serving; and
WHEREAS, he was awarded the George W. Crockett Jr. Lifetime Achievement
Award by the National Bar Association in 2012; and
WHEREAS, Edwin Lombard has been active in elections throughout the world,
including Indonesia, South Africa, and the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords to end the war in
Bosnia and Herzegovina; and
WHEREAS, Edwin Lombard founded the African-American Congress at Tulane,
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which has served the needs of African-American students at Tulane for over forty years; and
WHEREAS, Edwin Lombard has devoted a lifetime of service championing
principles that are so essential to the ideas of American democracy; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame was created in 1987 by the
Louisiana State Legislature to highlight the careers of the state's leading politicians and
political journalists; and
WHEREAS, Edwin A. Lombard, as a 2019 Louisiana Political Hall of Fame
inductee, was inducted on February 23, 2019.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend and congratulate Edwin A. Lombard upon his induction into the Louisiana
Political Hall of Fame.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Edwin A. Lombard.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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