Chris Hazel
| Lowell Christopher "Chris" Hazel | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for District 27 (Rapides Parish) |
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Assumed office January 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Rick L. Farrar |
| Majority | 62.5 percent |
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| Born |
January 25, 1965 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Karen Frances Centanni Hazel |
| Children | Sydney and Brik Hazel |
| Residence | Ball, north of Pineville, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Hazel is only the second Republican ever to hold the District 27 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He is only the third member of his party in modern times to represent Rapides Parish in the state House, the others having been the late Jock Scott, who served as a Republican from neighboring District 26 from 1985-1988, and Randy Wiggins, the District 27 representative from 1996-2000, who left the House after an unsuccessful challenge in 1999 to State Senator Joe McPherson. | |
Lowell Christopher Hazel, known as Chris Hazel (born January 25, 1965), is an attorney from Pineville, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 27, which encompasses northern Rapides Parish in the central portion of his state.
Hazel graduated in 1983 from the Roman Catholic Holy Cross High School in his native New Orleans. He then attended United States Marine Corps infantry training school at Camp Pendleton, California, and served in the Marines at 29 Palms, California, until 1986. Thereafter, he was a Lyndon B. Johnson intern for Democratic U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs of Louisiana's 2nd congressional district in New Orleans. In 1990, Hazel received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of New Orleans. He attended the United States Border Patrol training institute at Artesia, New Mexico. From 1992 to 1997, he was a Border Patrol agent at the Chula Vista station in San Diego. In 1997, he entered the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, which conferred on him his Juris Doctor degree in 2000. After law school, he returned to Louisiana at the age of thirty-five to begin a legal career.
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