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'''Donald Ray Kennard''' (August 11, 1936 – August 5, 2011)<ref name=obit>{{cite web| url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=donald-ray-kennard&pid=152893161|title=Donald Ray Kennard|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date= August 7, 2011|accessdate=August 7, 2011}}</ref> was an [[educator]], athletic director, and state representative for part of [[Baton Rouge|East Baton Rouge Parish]] from 1976 to 2008. Originally a [[Conservative Democrat]], Kennard switched his partisan affiliation in 1995, when he won the first of three terms as a [[Republican Party|Republican]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=legis.state.la.us|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
'''Donald Ray Kennard''' (August 11, 1936 – August 5, 2011)<ref name=obit>{{cite web| url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=donald-ray-kennard&pid=152893161|title=Donald Ray Kennard|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date= August 7, 2011|accessdate=August 7, 2011}}</ref> was an [[educator]], athletic director, and state representative for part of [[Baton Rouge|East Baton Rouge Parish]] from 1976 to 2008. Originally a [[Conservative Democrat]], Kennard switched his partisan affiliation in 1995, when he won the first of three terms as a [[Republican Party|Republican]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=legis.state.la.us|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
Kennard was born to Sterling D. Kennard (1914–1989), an East Baton Rouge Parish justice of the peace from the newly incorporated Central City community, and
Kennard was born to Sterling D. Kennard (1914–1989), an East Baton Rouge Parish justice of the peace from the newly incorporated Central City community, and