Brenda Ricks
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Brenda Ricks
Louisiana 21st Judicial District Court
Tenure
Present officeholder
Education
Brenda Bedsole Ricks is the Division E judge of the 21st Judicial District in Louisiana. She was first elected to this position on November 5, 1996.[1][2] She was re-elected in 2014 for a term beginning on January 1, 2015, and expiring on December 31, 2020.[3][4]
Elections
2014
See also: Louisiana judicial elections, 2014
Ricks ran for re-election to the 19th Judicial District.
As an unopposed candidate, she was automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot.
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Education
Ricks received a B.A. from Southeastern Louisiana College, going on to earn her J.D. from the Southern University Law Center. She was admitted to the bar in 1984.[5]
Noteworthy cases
In 2008, Ricks ruled that Vanessa Williams, a Hammond attorney, and Michael Jackson, an owner of a nightclub in Tangipahoa, could have their names appear on the ballot for the offices, respectively, of 21st judicial district attorney and mayor of Tangipahoa.[6]
In 2001, Ricks sentenced Clifton Chisholm to 20 years in prison, with 10 years of the sentence suspended, after Chisholmpleadedguilty to 155 counts of obscenity based on his mass mailing of computer altered pictures showing people engaging in homosexual intercourse. According to the charges, Chisholm altered the pictures using a computer to superimpose the faces of local teenage boys, including members of a local high school's athletic teams.[7]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results," November 5, 1996
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Elected Officials," accessed December 9, 2014 (Scroll down to "District Judge…")
- ↑ Judgepedia.org, “Judicial selection in Louisiana,” accessed December 8, 2014
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Louisiana Secretary of State, "November 4, 2014 General Election Candidates," accessed August 25, 2014
- ↑ Martindale.com, "Brenda Bedsole Ricks profile," accessed December 15, 2014
- ↑ The Advocate, "Judge rules in favor of candidates' duo"
- ↑ QRD.org, "Lesbian/gay law notes," accessed December 15, 2014
