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'''William Pike Hall, Jr.''', known as '''Pike Hall, Jr.''' (May 27, 1931 &ndash; November 25, 1999),<ref>Technically, he was Hall III; his father (1896–1945) used the suffix "Jr." After his father's death at the age of forty-nine, Pike Hall assumed the suffix "Jr.", and his son and grandson became Pike Hall, III, and IV, respectively. The original William Pike Hall, a district attorney and state court judge, died in 1928.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=Pike&gsln=Hall%2C+Jr.&msddy=1999&msdpn__ftp=Shreveport%2C+Louisiana&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=upc&cp=0|title=Pike Hall Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=March 27, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]], [[judge]], and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from his native [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]].​

'''William Pike Hall, Jr.''', known as '''Pike Hall, Jr.''' (May 27, 1931 &ndash; November 25, 1999),<ref>Technically, he was Hall III; his father (1896–1945) used the suffix "Jr." After his father's death at the age of forty-nine, Pike Hall assumed the suffix "Jr.", and his son and grandson became Pike Hall, III, and IV, respectively. The original William Pike Hall, a district attorney and state court judge, died in 1928.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=Pike&gsln=Hall%2C+Jr.&msddy=1999&msdpn__ftp=Shreveport%2C+Louisiana&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=upc&cp=0|title=Pike Hall Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=March 27, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]], [[judge]], and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from his native [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]].​

 

==Background==​

==Background==

 

Hall was the younger of two children of William Pike Hall, Sr., an attorney, civic figure, an state senator from 1924 to 1932, and the former Hazel Tucker, originally from Haughton in Bossier Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57373642|title=Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=December 17, 1945|pages=1, 6|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref> His sister is Hazel Hall Schaffer (born September 1929) of Shreveport. Hall married the former Anne Oden (October 1931 &ndash; November 14, 2016), a native of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, who moved to Shreveport in 1936. She graduated in 1950 from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School, at which she was a cheerleader and a [[football]] sweetheart. She briefly attended Mary Baldwin College in [[Virginia]] and transferred to LSU Baton Rouge, at which she joined Chi Omega sorority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=anne-oden-hall&pid=182532359#sthash.GxApWU77.dpuf|title=Anne Oden Hall|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 6, 2016}}</ref> The Halls had a daughter, Brevard Hall Knight (1952-2014), an [[educator]] and [[business]]woman who died of lung cancer though she had never [[Smoking|smoked]], and a son, Pike Hall, III.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172280222|title=Brevard Hall Knight|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 29, 2014|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>​

Hall was the younger of two children of William Pike Hall, Sr., an attorney, civic figure, an state senator from 1924 to 1932, and the former Hazel Tucker, originally from Haughton in Bossier Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57373642|title=Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=December 17, 1945|pages=1, 6|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref> His sister is Hazel Hall Schaffer (born September 1929) of Shreveport. Hall married the former Anne Oden (October 1931 &ndash; November 14, 2016), a native of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, who moved to Shreveport in 1936. She graduated in 1950 from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School, at which she was a cheerleader and a [[football]] sweetheart. She briefly attended Mary Baldwin College in [[Virginia]] and transferred to LSU Baton Rouge, at which she joined Chi Omega sorority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=anne-oden-hall&pid=182532359#sthash.GxApWU77.dpuf|title=Anne Oden Hall|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 6, 2016}}</ref> The Halls had a daughter, Brevard Hall Knight (1952-2014), an [[educator]] and [[business]]woman who died of lung cancer though she had never [[Smoking|smoked]], and a son, Pike Hall, III.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172280222|title=Brevard Hall Knight|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 29, 2014|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>​

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Hall was a great-nephew of United States District Judge George W. Jack of the Western District of Louisiana, who served from 1917 to 1924, and a first cousin once removed of Shreveport attorneys Whitfield Jack and Wellborn Jack, the latter a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish from 1940 to 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2012: Caddo Parish|publisher=legis.la.gov|accessdate=March 26, 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235758/http://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2012.pdf|archivedate=October 4, 2013|df=}}</ref>​

Hall was a great-nephew of United States District Judge George W. Jack of the Western District of Louisiana, who served from 1917 to 1924, and a first cousin once removed of Shreveport attorneys Whitfield Jack and Wellborn Jack, the latter a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish from 1940 to 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2012: Caddo Parish|publisher=legis.la.gov|accessdate=March 26, 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235758/http://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2012.pdf|archivedate=October 4, 2013|df=}}</ref>​

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Hall was a member of the [[Methodism|Methodist]] denomination.<ref name=whoswho/>​

Hall was a member of the [[Methodism|Methodist]] denomination.<ref name=whoswho/>​

==Career==​

==Career==​

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Hall was attending C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport when his father suddenly died in December 1945 at the age of forty-nine. Thereafter, he was sent to [[Washington and Lee University]] in Lexington, Virginia, [[Louisiana State University]], and then the LSU Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he received a [[Juris Doctor]]ate degree in 1953. In 1988, he was made an honorary member of the [[Order of the Coif]] at LSU. Like his father, he was highly involved in all levels of the bar association and for several years was the vice chairman of the Louisiana Judicial College.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/press_room/court_column/newsletters/v4n1.pdf|title=Courthouse Renamed for Hall|publisher=[[Louisiana Supreme Court]]|date=Winter 2001|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>​

Hall was attending C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport when his father suddenly died in December 1945 at the age of forty-nine. Thereafter, he was sent to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, [[Louisiana State University]], and then the LSU Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he received a [[Juris Doctor]]ate degree in 1953. In 1988, he was made an honorary member of the Order of the Coif at LSU. Like his father, he was highly involved in all levels of the bar association and for several years was the vice chairman of the Louisiana Judicial College.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/press_room/court_column/newsletters/v4n1.pdf|title=Courthouse Renamed for Hall|publisher=[[Louisiana Supreme Court]]|date=Winter 2001|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref>​

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Hall practiced with the Shreveport firm Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody & Hall. He was for four years the assistant city attorney under [[Mayor]] James C. Gardner. On November 3, 1964, Hall was elected to the Caddo Parish School Board, along with the first three [[Republican Party|Republicans]], among those [[Billy Guin]], ever elected to the body.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]]'', November 4, 1964.</ref> In 1970, Hall did not seek reelection to the school board but was instead elected to the ouisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, based in Shreveport. He remained on the appeal court from 1971 to 1990, the last five as the chief judge. From 1990 to 1994, he served as an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Pike Hall Jr.", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007–2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 660.</ref> but stepped down after four years and was succeeded by [[Jeffrey P. Victory]], a Shreveport lawyer elected as a Democrat who later switched parties.​

Hall practiced with the Shreveport firm Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody & Hall. He was for four years the assistant city attorney under [[Mayor]] James C. Gardner. On November 3, 1964, Hall was elected to the Caddo Parish School Board, along with the first three [[Republican Party|Republicans]], among those [[Billy Guin]], ever elected to the body.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]]'', November 4, 1964.</ref> In 1970, Hall did not seek reelection to the school board but was instead elected to the ouisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, based in Shreveport. He remained on the appeal court from 1971 to 1990, the last five as the chief judge. From 1990 to 1994, he served as an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Pike Hall Jr.", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007–2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 660.</ref> but stepped down after four years and was succeeded by [[Jeffrey P. Victory]], a Shreveport lawyer elected as a Democrat who later switched parties.​