Block, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, move, protect, rollback
57,799
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Created page with "{{Infobox person | name=Burrell J. Carter<br> (Louisiana mayor and state court and appellate judge) | nationality=American | birth_date=June 17, 1935 | birth..."
{{Infobox person
| name=Burrell J. Carter<br>
(Louisiana mayor and state court and appellate judge)
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=June 17, 1935
| birth_place=Greensburg, St. Helena Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA
| death_place=Greensburg, Louisiana
| death_date=November 11, 2019 (aged 84)
| religion=[[United Methodist]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| spouse=Helen Bridges Carter
'''Children''':<br>
[[Robby Carter]]<br>
Libby Peak<br>
Five grandchildren
'''Parents''':<br>
Robert T. and Elizabeth J. Carter
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Greensburg High School<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
LSU Law Center}}
'''Burrell J. Carter''' (June 17, 1935 – November 11, 2019) was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[[politician]] from Greensburg in St. Helena Parish in southeastern [[Louisiana]]. He was a [[judge]] of the Louisiana 21st Judicial District and thereafter the state First Circuit Court of Appeal from 1974 until his retirement in 2012.
A lifelong resident of Greensburg, Carter in 1953 graduated as the valedictorian of Greensburg High School and then attended [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. In 1956 at the age of twenty-one, he was elected [[mayor]] of Greensburg. He graduated first in his 1958 LSU law school class. He served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] and rose to the rank of captain. He practiced law in Greensburg until 1974, when he was appointed judge of the 21st Judicial District. He was subsequently elected in 2000 to the First Circuit Court of Appeal, of which he presided for a decade as the chief judge. In that capacity, he oversaw the planning and construction of the First Circuit building on Capitol Lake in East Baton Rouge Parish. Even after retirement in 2012, he served on an ''ad hoc'' basis on various courts, including multiple times on the Louisiana Supreme Court.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=
https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=the-honorable-burrell-j-carter&pid=194414242&fhid=16309|title=The Honorable Burrell J. Carter (1935 - 2019)|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=November 11, 2019|accessdaqte=November 14, 2019}}</ref>
Carter was a former adjutant general of the Louisiana chapter of the American Legion, president of the 21st Judicial District Bar Association, and a three-term chairman of he Louisiana Conference of Court of Appeal Judges. He contributed many articles to national and state legal journals. For thirty years, he was the chairman of the administrative board of the Greensburg [[United Methodist]] Church.<ref name=obit/>
Carter was married for more than sixty years to the former Helen Bridges.<ref nane=obit/> Their son, [[Robby Carter]], is a Democratic state representative who was reelected by an overwhelming margin against a No Party candidate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Legislative), October 12, 2019.</ref> He is married to the former Kerry Anthony. The Carters also have a daughter, Libby Peak, and her husband, Craig, and five grandchildren, Taylor Carter Peak, M.D., Captain David Kramer Peak, M.D., Robert Burrell Carter, Helen Ruth Carter, and Jessica C. Ledet,<ref name=obit/>
Judge Carter died of [[cancer]] at his Greensburg home at the age of eighty-four. Services were held in the Greensburg United Methodist Church, with interment at Greensburg Cemetery. His honorary pallbearers included three [[governor]]s, [[Edwin Edwards]], [[Mike Foster|Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.]], and [[John Bel Edwards]], as well as Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Burrell J.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
| name=Burrell J. Carter<br>
(Louisiana mayor and state court and appellate judge)
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=June 17, 1935
| birth_place=Greensburg, St. Helena Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA
| death_place=Greensburg, Louisiana
| death_date=November 11, 2019 (aged 84)
| religion=[[United Methodist]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| spouse=Helen Bridges Carter
'''Children''':<br>
[[Robby Carter]]<br>
Libby Peak<br>
Five grandchildren
'''Parents''':<br>
Robert T. and Elizabeth J. Carter
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Greensburg High School<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
LSU Law Center}}
'''Burrell J. Carter''' (June 17, 1935 – November 11, 2019) was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[[politician]] from Greensburg in St. Helena Parish in southeastern [[Louisiana]]. He was a [[judge]] of the Louisiana 21st Judicial District and thereafter the state First Circuit Court of Appeal from 1974 until his retirement in 2012.
A lifelong resident of Greensburg, Carter in 1953 graduated as the valedictorian of Greensburg High School and then attended [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. In 1956 at the age of twenty-one, he was elected [[mayor]] of Greensburg. He graduated first in his 1958 LSU law school class. He served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] and rose to the rank of captain. He practiced law in Greensburg until 1974, when he was appointed judge of the 21st Judicial District. He was subsequently elected in 2000 to the First Circuit Court of Appeal, of which he presided for a decade as the chief judge. In that capacity, he oversaw the planning and construction of the First Circuit building on Capitol Lake in East Baton Rouge Parish. Even after retirement in 2012, he served on an ''ad hoc'' basis on various courts, including multiple times on the Louisiana Supreme Court.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=
https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=the-honorable-burrell-j-carter&pid=194414242&fhid=16309|title=The Honorable Burrell J. Carter (1935 - 2019)|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=November 11, 2019|accessdaqte=November 14, 2019}}</ref>
Carter was a former adjutant general of the Louisiana chapter of the American Legion, president of the 21st Judicial District Bar Association, and a three-term chairman of he Louisiana Conference of Court of Appeal Judges. He contributed many articles to national and state legal journals. For thirty years, he was the chairman of the administrative board of the Greensburg [[United Methodist]] Church.<ref name=obit/>
Carter was married for more than sixty years to the former Helen Bridges.<ref nane=obit/> Their son, [[Robby Carter]], is a Democratic state representative who was reelected by an overwhelming margin against a No Party candidate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Legislative), October 12, 2019.</ref> He is married to the former Kerry Anthony. The Carters also have a daughter, Libby Peak, and her husband, Craig, and five grandchildren, Taylor Carter Peak, M.D., Captain David Kramer Peak, M.D., Robert Burrell Carter, Helen Ruth Carter, and Jessica C. Ledet,<ref name=obit/>
Judge Carter died of [[cancer]] at his Greensburg home at the age of eighty-four. Services were held in the Greensburg United Methodist Church, with interment at Greensburg Cemetery. His honorary pallbearers included three [[governor]]s, [[Edwin Edwards]], [[Mike Foster|Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.]], and [[John Bel Edwards]], as well as Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Burrell J.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]