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Doris Reggie is a second cousin of former [[U.S. Representative]] Charles Boustany of Lafayette, a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. Charles Boustany is a nephew-by-marriage of former [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]], a Reggie confidant who also began his long political career in Crowley though Edwards was a native of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20131122/NEWS01/311220025/|title=Judge Edmund Reggie laid to rest: Democratic Party insider died Tuesday at 87|date=November 22, 2013|publisher=''Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=November 23, 2013}}</ref>
Doris Reggie is a second cousin of former [[U.S. Representative]] Charles Boustany of Lafayette, a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. Charles Boustany is a nephew-by-marriage of former [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]], a Reggie confidant who also began his long political career in Crowley though Edwards was a native of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20131122/NEWS01/311220025/|title=Judge Edmund Reggie laid to rest: Democratic Party insider died Tuesday at 87|date=November 22, 2013|publisher=''Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=November 23, 2013}}</ref>
Doris Reggie is a long-term Democratic Party figure, having been a delegate to the national party conventions from 1976 to 1996. She sat on the platform committees in 1980, 1984, and 1988. She was a member of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee from 1975 to 1992 and sat on the finance committee from 1977 to 1996. She was amember of the national party finance committee from 1980 to 1992. She was the [[Democratic National Committee|Democratic national committeewoman]] for Louisiana from 1984 to 1988. In 1979, she was a member of the Governor's Committee for the International Year of the Child.<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Reggie, Doris Boustany", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2003-2004'', 19th ed., Vol. 1 (Alabama-Montana) (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2003), p. 792.</ref>
Doris Reggie is a long-term Democratic Party figure, having been a delegate to the national party conventions from 1976 to 1996. She sat on the platform committees in 1980, 1984, and 1988. She was a member of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee from 1975 to 1992 and sat on the finance committee from 1977 to 1996. She was amember of the national party finance committee from 1980 to 1992. She was the [[Democratic National Committee|Democratic national committeewoman]] for Louisiana from 1984 to 1988. In 1979, she was a member of the Governor's Committee for the International Year of the Child.<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Reggie, Doris Boustany", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2003-2004'', 19th ed., Vol. 1 (Alabama-Montana) (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2003), p. 792.</ref>
==Political life==
==Political life==
Reggie served as acting judge for the ailing Crowley City Judge Denis T. Canan, who was also Reggie's law partner. When Canan died in 1950, Reggie was appointed by Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] to Canan's seat, a fulfillment of Canan's dying wish. Appointed at the age of twenty-four, Reggie was reputed to be America's youngest judge at that time.<ref>''www.lapoliticalmuseum.com'' [http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=41 Edmund M. Reggie] Online version.</ref> Reggie held the post for twenty-five years until 1976.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/1728-The-Rise-of-Louisiana-Boy-to-Governor-s-Counsel.html|title=The Rise of Louisiana Boy to Governor's Counsel|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''[|date= September 16, 1979.</ref>
Reggie served as acting judge for the ailing Crowley City Judge Denis T. Canan, who was also Reggie's law partner. When Canan died in 1950, Reggie was appointed by Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] to Canan's seat, a fulfillment of Canan's dying wish. Appointed at the age of twenty-four, Reggie was reputed to be America's youngest judge at that time.<ref>''www.lapoliticalmuseum.com'' [http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=41 Edmund M. Reggie] Online version.</ref> Reggie held the post for twenty-five years until 1976.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/1728-The-Rise-of-Louisiana-Boy-to-Governor-s-Counsel.html|title=The Rise of Louisiana Boy to Governor's Counsel|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''[|date= September 16, 1979.</ref>