Ronnie Johns (Louisiana politician)

Ronnie Johns
Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 27th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 9, 2012
Preceded by	Willie Landry Mount
Louisiana State Representative from District 33 (Calcasieu Parish)
In office 1996–2008
Preceded by	Tim Stine
Succeeded by	Mike Danahay
Personal details
Born	Ronald Steven Johns July 1949
Political party	Democrat-turned-Republican
Spouse(s)	Michelle Ann Servat Johns
Children	Claire J. Broussard
Residence	Sulphur, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Alma mater	Bunkie High School University of Louisiana at Monroe
Occupation	Insurance agency owner Former pharmacist
Religion	Roman Catholic

Bunkie High School

Insurance agency owner

Ronald Steven Johns, known as Ronnie Johns (born July 1949), is a State Farm Insurance agency owner in Sulphur, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 27 in Calcasieu Parish. He ran without opposition in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011, to choose a successor to the term-limited Democratic Senator Willie Landry Mount. A former mayor of Lake Charles and an unsuccessful candidate in 2004 for the United States House of Representatives, Mount failed in her 2011 bid to be elected as the assessor of Calcasieu Parish.

Johns was reared in Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, where his father, Johnny Johns (1910-1999) was the municipal fire chief; his mother, Anna D. Johns (1921-1997), was a secretary. In 1967, he graduated from Bunkie High School, where he credits the principal for having inspired hard work in the students and teaching the elements of later success in life. Johns then procured his Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana University.

After college, he practiced pharmacy until the early 1980s, when he observed that numerous local drug stores were closing down or being purchased by chain stores. He hence opened his own insurance agency in Sulphur in 1982.

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