John Michael Guidry
| John Michael Guidry | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for District 67 (East Baton Rouge Parish) |
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In office 1992–1993 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph A. Delpit |
| Succeeded by | Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb |
| Louisiana State Senator for District 14 (East Baton Rouge Parish) |
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In office January 1993 – October 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Cleo Fields |
| Succeeded by | Cleo Fields |
| Louisiana Court of Appeal judge for the 1st Circuit, 2nd District, Division 2-E (East Baton Rouge Parish) |
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Assumed office October 1997 |
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| Preceded by | J. Louis Watkins, Jr. |
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January 19, 1962 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Carol Fowler Guidry |
| Residence | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Alma mater |
McKinley Senior High School |
| Occupation | Judge; Attorney |
McKinley Senior High School
Louisiana State University
John Michael Guidry (born January 19, 1962) is an African-American Democratic judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the First Circuit, Second District, based in the capital city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Guidry graduated in 1979 from the historically black McKinley Senior High School and in 1983 from Louisiana State University, both in his native Baton Rouge. He received his Juris Doctorate in 1987 from the historically black Southern University Law Center, also in Baton Rouge. He is a faculty member at both Southern University and the Southern Law Center. Guidry is a member of the NAACP, the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, and the group 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge. From 1980 to 1984, Guidry was a legislative assistant and from 1984 to 1987, he was the assistant clerk of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was an assistant attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish from 1988 to 1991 and maintained a private practice from 1987 to 1997.
Guidry was elected to the District 67 seat in the state House in 1991 with 56.4 percent of the vote in a three-candidate field. He served only from 1992 to 1993,when he resigned after his victory in a special election to the Louisiana State Senate. The vacancy occurred with the election for the first of two terms in 1992 of the African-American Democrat Cleo Fields to Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives. Guidry defeated Republican Sandra Bologna Ribes in the state Senate contest, 10,983 votes (64.8 percent) to 5,964 (35.2 percent).
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