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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Nancy Ruth Landry
| image=Nancy Landry of LA.jpg
| office=[[Louisiana]] Secretary of State
| governor=[[Jeff Landry]]
| term_start=January 8, 2024
| term_end=
| preceded=[[Kyle Ardoin]]
| office2=Louisiana State Representative<br> for District 31 (Lafayette Parish)
| term_start2=January 2008
| term_end2=July 16, 2019
| preceded2= Donald Trahan
| succeeded2=[[Jonathan Goudeau]]
| birth_date=June 10, 1962
| birth_place=[[Japan]] to military family
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party=[[Independent voter|Independent]] (prior to 2008)
[[Republican Party|Republican]] (since 2008)
| alma_mater=Lafayette High School ([[Lafayette]], Louisiana)<br>
[[Louisiana State University]] (B.A. and Juris Doctor)}}
'''Nancy Ruth Landry''', also known as '''Nancy L. Matthews''' (born June 10, 1962), is the incoming [[Louisiana ]] Secretary of State, a post to which she was handily elected in the [[general election]] held on November 18, 2003. She defeated the [[African-American]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Gwen Collins-Greenup, who had also lost the race in 2019 to Landry's predecessor, [[Kyle Ardoin]], who did not run again in 2023. Landry is a former state representative for District 31, with service from 2008 to 2019, when she resigned near the end of her third term to become Ardoin's first assistant secretary.
==Political life==
Landry earlier narrowly led a multi-candidate field with 19.4 percent in the primary held on October 14, 2023, with Collins-Greenup finishing only .2 percent behind her. Well-known candidates eliminated in the primary were [[Mike Francis]], a public service commissioner who finished third with 18 percent of the vote, outgoing House [[Speaker]] [[Clay Schnexyader]], who ran fourth with 15 percent, and [[Arthur Morrell]], a popular African-American politician in [[New Orleans]], who finished in fifth place with 11 percent of the vote.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
Landry, as well as Greenup, supported the purchase of new voting machines that count ballots electronically but leave a paper trail, something lacking in the state’s current technology. At the present time, only early votes have a paper trail; recounts are hence inaccurate in that most votes can't be verified.<ref>Nancy Landry - Ballotpedia, accessed November 24, 2023.</ref>
On May 19, 2015, Landry, a former [[Independent voter|Independent]], was one of four [[Republican Party|Republicans]] on the House Civil Law and Procedure Committee who voted to table on a 10–2 vote the proposed Marriage and Conscience Act, authored by Republican Representative [[Mike Johnson]] of [[Bossier City|Bossier Parish]], now the U.S. House Speaker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/louisianas_religious_freedom_b.html|title=Louisiana's religious freedom bill effectively defeated in committee|date=May 19, 2015|author=Emily Lane|accessdate=November 24, 2023}}</ref>
Considered a [[Moderate Republican]], Landry was in 2017 the chairman of the House Education Committee. In that capacity, she supported legislation by Democrat state Representative [[Barbara Norton]] of [[Shreveport]] to prohibit corporal punishment in all state public schools, but the measure lost, 61 to 34.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2017/05/08/spar-rod-public-schools-no-way-house-says/101425640/|title=Spare the rod in public schools? No way, House says|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=May 8, 2017|accessdate=November 24, 2023}}</ref>
Landry won reelection to the House in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015 with 10,005 votes (84.7 percent) to Democrat Evan H. Wright's 1,890 ballots (15.3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2015.</ref>
Landry resigned from the House seven months prior to the expiration of her third term to become the chief of staff to Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin.<ref>Greg Hilburn, "State Rep. Nancy Landry resigns to work for Secretary of State," ''[[Monroe News-Star]],'' July 17, 2019.
</ref> She was succeeded in the House by the [[conservative]] Republican [[Jonathan Goudeau]], who was thereafter defeated by Troy Hebert for a second full term in 2023, when Landry was elected secretary of state.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Landry, Nancy}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
| name=Nancy Ruth Landry
| image=Nancy Landry of LA.jpg
| office=[[Louisiana]] Secretary of State
| governor=[[Jeff Landry]]
| term_start=January 8, 2024
| term_end=
| preceded=[[Kyle Ardoin]]
| office2=Louisiana State Representative<br> for District 31 (Lafayette Parish)
| term_start2=January 2008
| term_end2=July 16, 2019
| preceded2= Donald Trahan
| succeeded2=[[Jonathan Goudeau]]
| birth_date=June 10, 1962
| birth_place=[[Japan]] to military family
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party=[[Independent voter|Independent]] (prior to 2008)
[[Republican Party|Republican]] (since 2008)
| alma_mater=Lafayette High School ([[Lafayette]], Louisiana)<br>
[[Louisiana State University]] (B.A. and Juris Doctor)}}
'''Nancy Ruth Landry''', also known as '''Nancy L. Matthews''' (born June 10, 1962), is the incoming [[Louisiana ]] Secretary of State, a post to which she was handily elected in the [[general election]] held on November 18, 2003. She defeated the [[African-American]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Gwen Collins-Greenup, who had also lost the race in 2019 to Landry's predecessor, [[Kyle Ardoin]], who did not run again in 2023. Landry is a former state representative for District 31, with service from 2008 to 2019, when she resigned near the end of her third term to become Ardoin's first assistant secretary.
==Political life==
Landry earlier narrowly led a multi-candidate field with 19.4 percent in the primary held on October 14, 2023, with Collins-Greenup finishing only .2 percent behind her. Well-known candidates eliminated in the primary were [[Mike Francis]], a public service commissioner who finished third with 18 percent of the vote, outgoing House [[Speaker]] [[Clay Schnexyader]], who ran fourth with 15 percent, and [[Arthur Morrell]], a popular African-American politician in [[New Orleans]], who finished in fifth place with 11 percent of the vote.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
Landry, as well as Greenup, supported the purchase of new voting machines that count ballots electronically but leave a paper trail, something lacking in the state’s current technology. At the present time, only early votes have a paper trail; recounts are hence inaccurate in that most votes can't be verified.<ref>Nancy Landry - Ballotpedia, accessed November 24, 2023.</ref>
On May 19, 2015, Landry, a former [[Independent voter|Independent]], was one of four [[Republican Party|Republicans]] on the House Civil Law and Procedure Committee who voted to table on a 10–2 vote the proposed Marriage and Conscience Act, authored by Republican Representative [[Mike Johnson]] of [[Bossier City|Bossier Parish]], now the U.S. House Speaker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/louisianas_religious_freedom_b.html|title=Louisiana's religious freedom bill effectively defeated in committee|date=May 19, 2015|author=Emily Lane|accessdate=November 24, 2023}}</ref>
Considered a [[Moderate Republican]], Landry was in 2017 the chairman of the House Education Committee. In that capacity, she supported legislation by Democrat state Representative [[Barbara Norton]] of [[Shreveport]] to prohibit corporal punishment in all state public schools, but the measure lost, 61 to 34.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2017/05/08/spar-rod-public-schools-no-way-house-says/101425640/|title=Spare the rod in public schools? No way, House says|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=May 8, 2017|accessdate=November 24, 2023}}</ref>
Landry won reelection to the House in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015 with 10,005 votes (84.7 percent) to Democrat Evan H. Wright's 1,890 ballots (15.3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2015.</ref>
Landry resigned from the House seven months prior to the expiration of her third term to become the chief of staff to Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin.<ref>Greg Hilburn, "State Rep. Nancy Landry resigns to work for Secretary of State," ''[[Monroe News-Star]],'' July 17, 2019.
</ref> She was succeeded in the House by the [[conservative]] Republican [[Jonathan Goudeau]], who was thereafter defeated by Troy Hebert for a second full term in 2023, when Landry was elected secretary of state.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Landry, Nancy}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]