| | Jerry and Sue Huckaby did not return to Louisiana after his congressional defeat. Instead Huckaby became a [[lobbyist]] but left after two months. "I was never comfortable sitting on the other side of the table," he said. "I wasn't comfortable asking members like (former [[U.S. Senator]]) [[John Breaux]] to see such and such a person or (former U.S. Representative) [[Bob Livingston]] to go to such and such a reception."<ref name="Louisiana History, p. 352"/> | | Jerry and Sue Huckaby did not return to Louisiana after his congressional defeat. Instead Huckaby became a [[lobbyist]] but left after two months. "I was never comfortable sitting on the other side of the table," he said. "I wasn't comfortable asking members like (former [[U.S. Senator]]) [[John Breaux]] to see such and such a person or (former U.S. Representative) [[Bob Livingston]] to go to such and such a reception."<ref name="Louisiana History, p. 352"/> |
| − | Huckaby instead became president of his wife's residential real estate business in McLean, [[Virginia]]. Nationally, Mrs. Huckaby was ranked No. 10 of more than two million [[Realtor]]s in the United States in sales. For many years, she was the leading Realtor in northern Virginia. In her 30-year career, which began when he became a congressman, Mrs. Huckaby sold more than one thousand homes valued in excess of a billion dollars. She graduated from Ringgold High School in 1961 and attended Stephens College in Columbia,[[Missouri]] and [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge. She graduated with a degree in human ecology from Louisiana Tech in Ruston, where the Sue Woodard Huckaby Endowed Professorship honors her memory. At the time of her death, the Huckabys lived in Great Falls in Fairfax County]], Virginia. They had been active members of Trinity [[United Methodist]] Church in McLean for some three decades.<ref>''Louisiana History'', pp. 352-353</ref><ref name=swh>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/shreveporttimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=117310985|title=Susanna Woodard "Sue" Huckaby obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=June 21, 2014}}</ref> | + | Huckaby instead became president of his wife's residential real estate business in McLean, [[Virginia]]. Nationally, Mrs. Huckaby was ranked No. 10 of more than two million Realtors in the United States in sales. For many years, she was the leading Realtor in northern Virginia. In her 30-year career, which began when he became a congressman, Mrs. Huckaby sold more than one thousand homes valued in excess of a billion dollars. She graduated from Ringgold High School in 1961 and attended Stephens College in Columbia,[[Missouri]] and [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge. She graduated with a degree in human ecology from Louisiana Tech in Ruston, where the Sue Woodard Huckaby Endowed Professorship honors her memory. At the time of her death, the Huckabys lived in Great Falls in Fairfax County]], Virginia. They had been active members of Trinity [[United Methodist]] Church in McLean for some three decades.<ref>''Louisiana History'', pp. 352-353</ref><ref name=swh>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/shreveporttimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=117310985|title=Susanna Woodard "Sue" Huckaby obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=June 21, 2014}}</ref> |
| | The Huckabys' daughter, Michelle Huckaby Lewis (born 1967 in Atlanta, Georgia), and their son-in-law, Todd Lewis, are physicians who live in the same house in Great Falls in which Jerry and Sue Huckaby had resided. Todd Lewis is a cardiologist in private practice in Fairfax County, and Michelle is on the staff of [[Johns Hopkins University]] Hospital] Both have undergraduate degrees from [[Stanford University]] in [Palo Alto, [[California]], and medical degrees from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]]. Michelle Lewis also has a [[law]] degree from [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]. Her specialty centers upon legal issues involving genetic testing of newly-born babies. The Lewises have two sons, Carter (born 2002) and Spencer (born 2005).<ref name="Louisiana History, p. 353">''Louisiana History'', p. 353</ref> | | The Huckabys' daughter, Michelle Huckaby Lewis (born 1967 in Atlanta, Georgia), and their son-in-law, Todd Lewis, are physicians who live in the same house in Great Falls in which Jerry and Sue Huckaby had resided. Todd Lewis is a cardiologist in private practice in Fairfax County, and Michelle is on the staff of [[Johns Hopkins University]] Hospital] Both have undergraduate degrees from [[Stanford University]] in [Palo Alto, [[California]], and medical degrees from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]]. Michelle Lewis also has a [[law]] degree from [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]. Her specialty centers upon legal issues involving genetic testing of newly-born babies. The Lewises have two sons, Carter (born 2002) and Spencer (born 2005).<ref name="Louisiana History, p. 353">''Louisiana History'', p. 353</ref> |