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In Terrebonne Parish, Lyons was president of the parish council and a member of the former Terrebonne Parish Police Jury, in addition to his time as mayor of Houma. After retiring to Mandeville, he served for five months on the Mandeville City Council in 2000 to complete the unexpired term of Homer Fouquier after Jack McGuire did not seek reelection. Lyons, in applying to be interim mayor, agreed not to be a candidate in the  [[special election]] held on March 27, 2010, to complete the term to which Price had been elected and which ended in 2012.<ref>Kia Hall Hayes, [http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/10/update_ray_baas_selected_as_ne.html "North Shore city selects leader", ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', October 18, 2009, Metro Edition, pp. A1, A8.</ref>​

In Terrebonne Parish, Lyons was president of the parish council and a member of the former Terrebonne Parish Police Jury, in addition to his time as mayor of Houma. After retiring to Mandeville, he served for five months on the Mandeville City Council in 2000 to complete the unexpired term of Homer Fouquier after Jack McGuire did not seek reelection. Lyons, in applying to be interim mayor, agreed not to be a candidate in the  [[special election]] held on March 27, 2010, to complete the term to which Price had been elected and which ended in 2012.<ref>Kia Hall Hayes, [http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/10/update_ray_baas_selected_as_ne.html "North Shore city selects leader", ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', October 18, 2009, Metro Edition, pp. A1, A8.</ref>​

In 1988, the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Lyons polled 16 percent of the votes cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Victory went instead to another Democrat, later [[Governor]] [[Kathleen Blanco]], who defeated a [[Republican Party|Republican]], Kernan "Skip" Hand in the [[general election]] for the PSC held in conjunction with the U.S. presidential election.

In 1988, the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Lyons polled 16 percent of the votes cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Victory went instead to another Democrat, later [[Governor]] [[Kathleen Blanco]], who defeated a [[Republican Party|Republican]], [[Kernan "Skip" Hand]] in the [[general election]] for the PSC held in conjunction with the U.S. presidential election.

Lyons is retired from Duplantis Truck Lines, Quality Shipyards, and Benton Casing Services, all companies in Houma of which he was a part-owner. He has served on the boards of Terrebonne General Hospital, the Terrebonne Parish Library, Louisiana Energy Power Authority, Florida Parishes Retirement District, and Saint Tammany Parish Events District.

Lyons is retired from Duplantis Truck Lines, Quality Shipyards, and Benton Casing Services, all companies in Houma of which he was a part-owner. He has served on the boards of Terrebonne General Hospital, the Terrebonne Parish Library, Louisiana Energy Power Authority, Florida Parishes Retirement District, and Saint Tammany Parish Events District.