Joel Robideaux
| Joel Craig Robideaux | |
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| Lafayette City-Parish President | |
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Assumed office 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Joey Durel |
| Louisiana State Representative for District 45 (Lafayette Parish) | |
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In office April 2004 – January 11, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jerry Luke LeBlanc |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Paul Coussan |
| Speaker Pro Tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives | |
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In office March 2010 – January 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Karen Carter Peterson |
| Succeeded by | Walt Leger, III |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 5, 1962 Lafayette, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Independent-turned-Republican (2011) |
| Spouse(s) | Bobette M. Robideaux |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
Our Lady of Fatima High School |
| Occupation | Certified Public Accountant |
Our Lady of Fatima High School
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Joel Craig Robideaux (born October 5, 1962) is a politician and accountant from Lafayette, Louisiana, who is the president of the Lafayette Parish government.
An Independent-turned-Republican, Robideaux is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 45 in Lafayette Parish. In 2010, he was narrowly elected Speaker Pro Tempore of the chamber, the first then Independent ever to hold the position.
On September 1, 2011, Robideaux announced that he was joining the Republican Party. Earlier Robideaux was chosen Speaker Pro Tempore over the Democrat Noble Ellington of Winnsboro, who later switched to Republican affiliation. The contest became open with the resignation of Democratic Representative Karen Carter Peterson, who instead became a state senator. In the heated campaign to choose Peterson's successor, Speaker Tucker even removed Representative John Schroder of Covington in St. Tammany Parish from the House Appropriations Committee because Tucker claimed that Schroder had reneged from a prior pledge to support Robideaux, instead of Ellington. Schroder denied having ever made such a commitment to support Robideaux.
A Lafayette native, Robideaux graduated from Roman Catholic Our Lady of Fatima High School and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He obtained a master's degree in finance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Robideaux coaches youth sports and has taught accounting on an adjunct basis at ULL. He was the charter president of Kiwanis International of Vermilion. He is a former board member for Camp Bon Coeur and Habitat for Humanity. He and his wife, Bobette M. Robideaux, have three sons. In 2007, Robideaux and his Louisiana State Senate colleague Michael J. Michot of Lafayette sponsored the transportation bill to fund priority road projects.
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