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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Richard Bennett "Rick"<br> Brewer, Jr.
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| office=9th permanent President of Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]
| term_start=April 7, 2015
| term_end=
| preceded=Argile Asa Smith, Jr. (interim)
| succeeded=
| birth_date =April 19, 1956
|birth_place =[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]],
| death_place =
| death_date=
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| residence=Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
| spouse =Catherine W. "Cathy" Brewer<br>
Children:<br>
Jason and Jonathan D. Brewer
| parents=Richard Sr., and Frances Dike Brewer
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/VoterLogin|title=Richard Brewer, April 1956|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=December 8, 2016}}</ref>
| alma_mater=Charleston Southern University<br>
[[University of South Carolina]]
}}
'''Richard Bennett Brewer, Jr.''', known as '''Rick Brewer''' (born April 19, 1956),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/richard-brewer/rickbrewer77|title=
rRichard Brewer|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=Mach 2, 2018}}</ref> is the ninth president<ref>He is the tenth president if the preceding interim president, W. Argile Smith, is included.</ref> of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]. He succeeded the interim president Argile Asa Smith, Jr., on April 7, 2015, who filled in for eight months following the resignation in 2014 of the embattled former president, [[Joe Aguillard]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140303/NEWS01/303030023/Louisiana-College-trustees-consider-new-contract-Aguillard|title=Leigh Guidry, "Louisiana College trustees consider new contract for Aguillard," March 2, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=March 3, 2014}}</ref>
==Background==
Brewer is the oldest of three sons of the former Frances Dike (born December 12, 1936) and the Reverend Richard Brewer, Sr. (July 15, 1934 – September 7, 1990), who is interred at the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Edgefield, [[South Carolina]], where he was the pastor from 1972 to 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Brewer&GSfn=Richard&GSby=1934&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1990&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=65455695&df=all&|title=Richard B. Brewer|publisher=Oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref> Brewer was born in [[New Orleans]], where his parents lived while the senior Brewer studied at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.<ref name=rbrewertolead>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpnews.net/44341/rick-brewer-to-lead-louisiana-college|title=Rick Brewer to lead Louisiana College|author=Brian Blackwell|publisher=''The Baptist Message''|date=March 6, 2015|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref>
Reared primarily in [[North Carolina]], Brewer received both [[Bachelor of Arts]] and [[Master of Business Administration]] from Charleston Southern University, a Baptist [[liberal arts]] institution founded in 1964 and located in North Charleston, South Carolina. He then attended the [[University of South Carolina]] in the capital city of [[Columbia]], South Carolina|Columbia]], at which he obtained the [[Ph.D.]] in educational administration. He also did post-graduate studies at [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]], and [[Duke University]] in Durham, North Carolina.<ref name=rbrewertolead/>
Brewer previously resided in Summerville in Dorchester County, South Carolina, where he was a [[deacon]] at Summerville Baptist Church,<ref name=rbrewertolead/> and Ladson, South Carolina; Eatonton in Putnam County in central [[Georgia]], and Lewisville in Forsyth County in west central North Carolina, specific dates unavailable.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Richard&qmi=&qn=Brewer&qcs=North+Charleston%2C+SC&focusfirst=1|title=Richard B. Brewer|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref>
Brewer and his wife, Catherine W. "Cathy" Brewer (born November 1, 1956), have two adult sons, Jason and Jonathan.<ref name=rbrewertolead/>
==Career==
Brewer was previously an administrator for twenty-eight years at his alma mater, Charleston Southern University. He was the director for external relations, assistant to the president, interim director of athletics, and vice president for student affairs, athletics, and planning. He worked to double enrollment at Charleston Southern from 1,600 to more than 3,400, improve freshmen retention from 50 to 78 percent, to boost endowments,<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/03/05/lc-board-names-south-carolina-vp-ninth-president/24444023/|title=LC board names South Carolina VP as ninth president|date=March 25, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|author=Leigh Guidry|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref> and helped to raise $50 million in student scholarships.<ref name=rbrewertolead/>
Trustees voted unanimously to name Brewer as the Louisiana College president and with a five-year contract which began on April 7, 2015. Brewer referred to the unanimous vote on his behalf "a statement. We believe [[God]] brought the right man at such a time as this. ... We're going to learn from the past, but not dwell there."<ref name=bio/> Brewer has been an evaluator for the accrediting body the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He will tap his SACS experience to return LC to full accreditation. LC was placed on probation in June 2014 and had been under warning status for the preceding two years as well. Brewer said that his "3 R"s for LC will be "relational", relevant, and rigorous," meaning the promotion of nurturing relationships among students, faculty, staff, coaches and administration and partnerships with local businesses, the community, alumni, and Louisiana Baptists.<ref name=bio/>
Brewer's arrival on campus ended much of the controversy stemming from the Aguillard years. Two bloggers who had worked to expose questionable practices under Aguillard, Drew Wales and Joshua Breland, have left the institution to pursue graduate studies elsewhere. The two said that they believed their activities set the framework to improve the academic climate at the college.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/04/18/student-bloggers-moved-la-college/26004033/|title=Student bloggers have moved on from La. College|author=Leigh Guidry|date=April 18, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref>
In a 2015 address before Rotary International in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Brewer said that LC seeks to engage students in their own learning. Instruction, he suggested, should incorporate the arts within the technical fields. Future classes, he said, will have less lecture and more discussion or practice sessions: "We must be finding new and creative ways to bring students and educate them."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/07/28/lc-making-education-relevant/30791881/|title=How is LC making its education ‘relevant’?|author=Leigh Guidry|date=July 28, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 29, 2015}}</ref> In December 2015, Brewer announced that LC's accreditation had been restored by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges. "This means our accreditation is no longer in question. It means we can continue to advance the college and its vision and mission. ... It means we have met the standards," Brewer said.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/education/2015/12/08/louisiana-college-off-probation-whats-next/76989292/|title=Louisiana College off probation. What's next?|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=December 9, 2015|accessdate=December 11, 2015}}</ref>
In the fall semester, 2016, LC had a 14.5 percent increase in first-time students. President Brewer said that the numbers were "trending in the right direction." The college enrolled 255 new freshmen and 61 transfer students; overall enrollment was 1,126, the first in five years to show growth in the number of new students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/education/2016/09/07/la-college-reports-enrollment-gains-first-time-5-years/89973202/|author=Miranda Klein|title=La. College reports enrollment gains for the first time in 5 years|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 7, 2016|accessdate=February 22, 2017}}</ref>
==Legal issues==
In September 2016, former LC President Aguillard alleged in a suit in state district court that he is fighting a "civil conspiracy" by Louisiana College to commit assault and battery, to inflict emotional distress, and breach of contract. On October 6, 2017, he not only lost his suit in state court but was ordered by Judge Monique Rauls to pay nearly $18,000 in arbitration fees to LC.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/education/2017/10/19/judge-dismisses-former-presidents-claims-against-louisiana-college/780332001/|title=Judge dismisses former president's claims against Louisiana College|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=October 19, 2017|accessdate=February 16, 2018}}</ref>
In late May 2017, Louisiana College filed a civil suit seeking unspecified damages for [[defamation]] against former President Joe Aguillard, who it alleges "engaged in a regular and pervasive campaign to undercut" the institution including "ghostwriting faculty member grievances" against the administration. The suit cites an "anonymous package" reportedly circulated by Aguillard of "derogatory statements" about the college. Individual plaintiffs include President Brewer and Cheryl Clark, whose title is unspecified. Aguillard accuses Clark of having illegally changed the final grades of more than "a dozen nursing students."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kalb.com/content/news/Louisiana-College-files-civil-suit-against-former-president-Joe-Aguillard-425494264.html|title=Louisiana College files civil suit against former president Joe Aguillard for defamation|publisher=KALB-TV|date=May 31, 2017|accessdate=June 2, 2017}}</ref>
Then on December 27, 2017, former Aguillard again filed suit against LC, this time in the Alexandria-based United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He contends that LC discriminated against him for "disability" since his heart attack and quadruple by-pass surgery in 2011. When Aguillard left the college presidency in 2014, he cited health issues as a factor. After a year as president emeritus, he became a tenured faculty member in the LC graduate teacher education program. Aguillard also claims religious discrimination because he contends that his permanent successor, Rick Brewer, is a Calvinist, a claim which Brewer repudiates. Aguillard is seeking a jury trial and "all of the relief" to which he claims he is owed, including back-pay and front-pay. James T. Trimble, the presiding judge in the suit, was assigned after Dee Drell recused himself.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/education/2018/01/04/former-lc-president-suing-college-again/1001003001/|title=Former LC president suing college again|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=January 4, 2018|accessdate=February 5, 2018}}</ref>
On a separate matter, Brewer on February 21, 2018, was sued in the United States District Court by a former LC graduate, Joshua Bonadona (born October 20. 1989), who was an unsuccessful applicant for a position at LC as assistant [[football]] coach. Bonadona converted from [[Judaism]] to Christianity while he was an LC student. He contends that Brewer discriminated against him in the coach selection process because of Bonadona's Jewish heritage. Bonadona's lawyer said the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] offers legal protection at private colleges to Jews facing discrimination. Formerly of [[Baton Rouge]], Bonadona instead took a lower-paying position as assistant coach at Hendrix College in Conway in Faulkner County, [[Arkansas]]. Bonadona said that he was told by head football coach Justin Charles (born July 21, 1982) that Brewer had rejected Bonadona's application because of Bonadona's Jewish background. Brewer himself denies any anti-Semitism. The suit, he said, had led to his having been unfairly "vilified and determined guilty by certain persons from across the nation."<ref name=bonadonasuit>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2018/02/24/lc-president-denies-not-hiring-man-over-jewish-heritage/369889002/|title=LC president denies not man over Jewish heritage|date=February 28, 2018|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:North Carolina]]
[[Category:South Carolina]]
[[Category:Georgia]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
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{{template|This article was updated from {{{site|Wikipedia}}} but the text was originally written by BHathorn (under the name) and does not include alterations made by others from that site.|background=#aff|category=Copied Articles}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Richard Bennett "Rick"<br> Brewer, Jr.
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| office=9th permanent President of Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]
| term_start=April 7, 2015
| term_end=
| preceded=Argile Asa Smith, Jr. (interim)
| succeeded=
| birth_date =April 19, 1956
|birth_place =[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]],
| death_place =
| death_date=
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| residence=Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
| spouse =Catherine W. "Cathy" Brewer<br>
Children:<br>
Jason and Jonathan D. Brewer
| parents=Richard Sr., and Frances Dike Brewer
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/VoterLogin|title=Richard Brewer, April 1956|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=December 8, 2016}}</ref>
| alma_mater=Charleston Southern University<br>
[[University of South Carolina]]
}}
'''Richard Bennett Brewer, Jr.''', known as '''Rick Brewer''' (born April 19, 1956),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/richard-brewer/rickbrewer77|title=
rRichard Brewer|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=Mach 2, 2018}}</ref> is the ninth president<ref>He is the tenth president if the preceding interim president, W. Argile Smith, is included.</ref> of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]. He succeeded the interim president Argile Asa Smith, Jr., on April 7, 2015, who filled in for eight months following the resignation in 2014 of the embattled former president, [[Joe Aguillard]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140303/NEWS01/303030023/Louisiana-College-trustees-consider-new-contract-Aguillard|title=Leigh Guidry, "Louisiana College trustees consider new contract for Aguillard," March 2, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=March 3, 2014}}</ref>
==Background==
Brewer is the oldest of three sons of the former Frances Dike (born December 12, 1936) and the Reverend Richard Brewer, Sr. (July 15, 1934 – September 7, 1990), who is interred at the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Edgefield, [[South Carolina]], where he was the pastor from 1972 to 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Brewer&GSfn=Richard&GSby=1934&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1990&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=65455695&df=all&|title=Richard B. Brewer|publisher=Oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref> Brewer was born in [[New Orleans]], where his parents lived while the senior Brewer studied at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.<ref name=rbrewertolead>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpnews.net/44341/rick-brewer-to-lead-louisiana-college|title=Rick Brewer to lead Louisiana College|author=Brian Blackwell|publisher=''The Baptist Message''|date=March 6, 2015|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref>
Reared primarily in [[North Carolina]], Brewer received both [[Bachelor of Arts]] and [[Master of Business Administration]] from Charleston Southern University, a Baptist [[liberal arts]] institution founded in 1964 and located in North Charleston, South Carolina. He then attended the [[University of South Carolina]] in the capital city of [[Columbia]], South Carolina|Columbia]], at which he obtained the [[Ph.D.]] in educational administration. He also did post-graduate studies at [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]], and [[Duke University]] in Durham, North Carolina.<ref name=rbrewertolead/>
Brewer previously resided in Summerville in Dorchester County, South Carolina, where he was a [[deacon]] at Summerville Baptist Church,<ref name=rbrewertolead/> and Ladson, South Carolina; Eatonton in Putnam County in central [[Georgia]], and Lewisville in Forsyth County in west central North Carolina, specific dates unavailable.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Richard&qmi=&qn=Brewer&qcs=North+Charleston%2C+SC&focusfirst=1|title=Richard B. Brewer|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref>
Brewer and his wife, Catherine W. "Cathy" Brewer (born November 1, 1956), have two adult sons, Jason and Jonathan.<ref name=rbrewertolead/>
==Career==
Brewer was previously an administrator for twenty-eight years at his alma mater, Charleston Southern University. He was the director for external relations, assistant to the president, interim director of athletics, and vice president for student affairs, athletics, and planning. He worked to double enrollment at Charleston Southern from 1,600 to more than 3,400, improve freshmen retention from 50 to 78 percent, to boost endowments,<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/03/05/lc-board-names-south-carolina-vp-ninth-president/24444023/|title=LC board names South Carolina VP as ninth president|date=March 25, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|author=Leigh Guidry|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref> and helped to raise $50 million in student scholarships.<ref name=rbrewertolead/>
Trustees voted unanimously to name Brewer as the Louisiana College president and with a five-year contract which began on April 7, 2015. Brewer referred to the unanimous vote on his behalf "a statement. We believe [[God]] brought the right man at such a time as this. ... We're going to learn from the past, but not dwell there."<ref name=bio/> Brewer has been an evaluator for the accrediting body the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He will tap his SACS experience to return LC to full accreditation. LC was placed on probation in June 2014 and had been under warning status for the preceding two years as well. Brewer said that his "3 R"s for LC will be "relational", relevant, and rigorous," meaning the promotion of nurturing relationships among students, faculty, staff, coaches and administration and partnerships with local businesses, the community, alumni, and Louisiana Baptists.<ref name=bio/>
Brewer's arrival on campus ended much of the controversy stemming from the Aguillard years. Two bloggers who had worked to expose questionable practices under Aguillard, Drew Wales and Joshua Breland, have left the institution to pursue graduate studies elsewhere. The two said that they believed their activities set the framework to improve the academic climate at the college.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/04/18/student-bloggers-moved-la-college/26004033/|title=Student bloggers have moved on from La. College|author=Leigh Guidry|date=April 18, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref>
In a 2015 address before Rotary International in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Brewer said that LC seeks to engage students in their own learning. Instruction, he suggested, should incorporate the arts within the technical fields. Future classes, he said, will have less lecture and more discussion or practice sessions: "We must be finding new and creative ways to bring students and educate them."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/07/28/lc-making-education-relevant/30791881/|title=How is LC making its education ‘relevant’?|author=Leigh Guidry|date=July 28, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 29, 2015}}</ref> In December 2015, Brewer announced that LC's accreditation had been restored by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges. "This means our accreditation is no longer in question. It means we can continue to advance the college and its vision and mission. ... It means we have met the standards," Brewer said.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/education/2015/12/08/louisiana-college-off-probation-whats-next/76989292/|title=Louisiana College off probation. What's next?|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=December 9, 2015|accessdate=December 11, 2015}}</ref>
In the fall semester, 2016, LC had a 14.5 percent increase in first-time students. President Brewer said that the numbers were "trending in the right direction." The college enrolled 255 new freshmen and 61 transfer students; overall enrollment was 1,126, the first in five years to show growth in the number of new students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/education/2016/09/07/la-college-reports-enrollment-gains-first-time-5-years/89973202/|author=Miranda Klein|title=La. College reports enrollment gains for the first time in 5 years|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 7, 2016|accessdate=February 22, 2017}}</ref>
==Legal issues==
In September 2016, former LC President Aguillard alleged in a suit in state district court that he is fighting a "civil conspiracy" by Louisiana College to commit assault and battery, to inflict emotional distress, and breach of contract. On October 6, 2017, he not only lost his suit in state court but was ordered by Judge Monique Rauls to pay nearly $18,000 in arbitration fees to LC.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/education/2017/10/19/judge-dismisses-former-presidents-claims-against-louisiana-college/780332001/|title=Judge dismisses former president's claims against Louisiana College|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=October 19, 2017|accessdate=February 16, 2018}}</ref>
In late May 2017, Louisiana College filed a civil suit seeking unspecified damages for [[defamation]] against former President Joe Aguillard, who it alleges "engaged in a regular and pervasive campaign to undercut" the institution including "ghostwriting faculty member grievances" against the administration. The suit cites an "anonymous package" reportedly circulated by Aguillard of "derogatory statements" about the college. Individual plaintiffs include President Brewer and Cheryl Clark, whose title is unspecified. Aguillard accuses Clark of having illegally changed the final grades of more than "a dozen nursing students."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kalb.com/content/news/Louisiana-College-files-civil-suit-against-former-president-Joe-Aguillard-425494264.html|title=Louisiana College files civil suit against former president Joe Aguillard for defamation|publisher=KALB-TV|date=May 31, 2017|accessdate=June 2, 2017}}</ref>
Then on December 27, 2017, former Aguillard again filed suit against LC, this time in the Alexandria-based United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He contends that LC discriminated against him for "disability" since his heart attack and quadruple by-pass surgery in 2011. When Aguillard left the college presidency in 2014, he cited health issues as a factor. After a year as president emeritus, he became a tenured faculty member in the LC graduate teacher education program. Aguillard also claims religious discrimination because he contends that his permanent successor, Rick Brewer, is a Calvinist, a claim which Brewer repudiates. Aguillard is seeking a jury trial and "all of the relief" to which he claims he is owed, including back-pay and front-pay. James T. Trimble, the presiding judge in the suit, was assigned after Dee Drell recused himself.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/education/2018/01/04/former-lc-president-suing-college-again/1001003001/|title=Former LC president suing college again|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=January 4, 2018|accessdate=February 5, 2018}}</ref>
On a separate matter, Brewer on February 21, 2018, was sued in the United States District Court by a former LC graduate, Joshua Bonadona (born October 20. 1989), who was an unsuccessful applicant for a position at LC as assistant [[football]] coach. Bonadona converted from [[Judaism]] to Christianity while he was an LC student. He contends that Brewer discriminated against him in the coach selection process because of Bonadona's Jewish heritage. Bonadona's lawyer said the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] offers legal protection at private colleges to Jews facing discrimination. Formerly of [[Baton Rouge]], Bonadona instead took a lower-paying position as assistant coach at Hendrix College in Conway in Faulkner County, [[Arkansas]]. Bonadona said that he was told by head football coach Justin Charles (born July 21, 1982) that Brewer had rejected Bonadona's application because of Bonadona's Jewish background. Brewer himself denies any anti-Semitism. The suit, he said, had led to his having been unfairly "vilified and determined guilty by certain persons from across the nation."<ref name=bonadonasuit>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2018/02/24/lc-president-denies-not-hiring-man-over-jewish-heritage/369889002/|title=LC president denies not man over Jewish heritage|date=February 28, 2018|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brewer, Rick}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:North Carolina]]
[[Category:South Carolina]]
[[Category:Georgia]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Republicans]]