Tom Schedler
| Tom Schedler | |
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| Secretary of State of Louisiana | |
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Assumed office November 22, 2010 |
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| Governor |
Bobby Jindal John Bel Edwards |
| Preceded by | Jay Dardenne |
| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 11th district |
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In office 1996–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Gerry Hinton |
| Succeeded by | Jack Donahue |
| Member of the Slidell City Council from District F |
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In office 1990–1996 |
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| Preceded by | ??? |
| Succeeded by | Michael Molbert |
| Personal details | |
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John Thomas Schedler January 24, 1950 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Stephanie Gele |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | University of Louisiana, Lafayette (BS) |
John Thomas Schedler, known as Tom Schedler (born January 24, 1950), is a politician from suburban St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA, who served as the District 11 Louisiana state senator from 1996 to 2008, when he was term-limited after twelve years. Thereafter, he was named chief deputy to Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne, a former Senate colleague of Schedler's from Baton Rouge. When Dardenne became lieutenant governor-elect, Schedler began acting as secretary of state. Dardenne's elevation to lieutenant governor was delayed formally and officially to November 22, 2010, to obviate a statutory requirement to hold a special election to fill the position of secretary of state. Thus on November 22, Schedler became the official secretary of state.
Schedler narrowly won a full term as Secretary of State in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011. He defeated Jim Tucker of Terrytown, the outgoing Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 449,370 (50.5 percent) to 440,872 (49.5 percent). Schedler carried only twenty-six of the sixty-four parishes, and his margin of victory could be attributed to his home parish of St. Tammany, which he won by greater than a two-to-one margin.
A native of New Orleans, Schedler graduated in 1967 from De La Salle High School. In 1999, he was honored by De La Salle as one of the school's 125 outstanding graduates over the first half-century of the institution. In 1971, Schedler received his Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1971 to 1976 and the Louisiana National Guard. His business concerns have been in the fields of banking, real estate, and health-care management. In the middle 1990s, he was a hospital foundation director. From 1990 to 1996, he was the director of managed care services and business development at a hospital in St. Tammany Parish.
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