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'''Mitchell Theriot''', known as '''Mitch Theriot''', is an [[attorney]] and [[judge]] who also served from 1992 to 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Historical Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for two terms for District 54 (Jefferson and Lafourche parishes). In 2007, he switched to [[Republican Party|Republican]] affiliation. and soon lost his bid to return to the state House.  

'''Mitchell Theriot''', known as '''Mitch Theriot''', is an [[attorney]] and [[judge]] who also served from 1992 to 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Historical Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for two terms for District 54 (Jefferson and Lafourche parishes). In 2007, he switched to [[Republican Party|Republican]] affiliation. and soon lost his bid to return to the state House.  

He is the third of four sons of Livingston and Barbara Theriot of Golden Meadow in Lafourche Parish. He and his wife, the former Veronica Gautreaux, a nurse for the Cardiovascular Institute of the South. The couple has three children, Stuart, Tyler, and Emilee Theriot.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119062709/http://mitchtheriotforjudge.com/endorsements.html|title=Get to Know Mitch|publisher=Mitchtheriotforjudge.com|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref>

He is the third of four sons of Livingston C. "Budd" Theriot (born 1936) and the former Barbara Peck (1937-2017) of Golden Meadow in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183794109/barbara-theriot|title=Barbara Peck Theriot|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> Theriot is married to the former Veronica Gautreaux, a nurse for the Cardiovascular Institute of the South. The couple has three children, Stuart, Tyler, and Emilee Theriot.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119062709/http://mitchtheriotforjudge.com/endorsements.html|title=Get to Know Mitch|publisher=Mitchtheriotforjudge.com|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref>

 

In 2012, Theriot was elected to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, District 1, Division B for a term of ten years. Still a Republican, Theriot led in the primary on November 6, 2012, with 33.66 percent of the vote. Theroit then defeated Democrat William Dupont in the runoff election on December 8, 2012. Theriot polled 25,793 (53 percent) to Dupont's 22,783 (47 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mitch_Theriot|title=Mitch Theriot|publisher=Ballotpedia|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 8, 2012.</ref>  

He elected to the legislature in 1991 to succeed Jessie P. Guidry, a Democrat. He won again in 1995. In the 1999 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] for the legislature, Theriot was unseated after two terms in office by the Republican (later [[Independent voter|Independent]]) Loulan J. Pitre, Jr., an attorney who was born in 1961 in Cut-Off in Lafourche Parish. Pitre polled, 7,187 votes (51.5 percent) to  6,768 (48.5 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref> In 2003, Pitre again defeated Theriot by nearly the same total as he had in 1999, 7,618 (votes 52 percent) to 7,035 (48 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 4, 2003.</ref> When Pitre declined to  seek a third term in 2007, Theriot ran to reclaim the seat after an eight-year absence, but after his party switch, he lost to the Democrat Jerry "Truck" Gisclair of Larose in Lafourche Parish, a businessman and radio station broadcaster.  

He elected to the legislature in 1991 to succeed Jessie P. Guidry, a Democrat. He won again in 1995. In the 1999 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] for the legislature, Theriot was unseated after two terms in office by the Republican (later [[Independent voter|Independent]]) Loulan J. Pitre, Jr., an attorney who was born in 1961 in Cut-Off in Lafourche Parish. Pitre polled, 7,187 votes (51.5 percent) to  6,768 (48.5 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref> In 2003, Pitre again defeated Theriot by nearly the same total as he had in 1999, 7,618 (votes 52 percent) to 7,035 (48 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 4, 2003.</ref> When Pitre declined to  seek a third term in 2007, Theriot ran to reclaim the seat after an eight-year absence, but after his party switch, he lost to the Democrat Jerry "Truck" Gisclair of Larose in Lafourche Parish, a businessman and radio station broadcaster.  

In 2007, Pitre declined to seek a third term and Gisclair in a runoff defeated newly-minted Republican Theriot. In the preceding primary on October 20, 2007, Theriot led with 4,797 votes (37 percent) to Gisclair 's  4,396 (33.8 percent). The balance was held by a second Democrat, John Melancon, Jr., with 3,821 votes (29.4 percent). In the general election in November 2007, Gisclair defeated Theriot by 121 votes, 4,128 (50.7 percent) to 4,007 (49.3 percent, in still another narrow race in the highly competitive district. Meanwhile, as Pitre completed his eight years in the legislature, [[Governor]]-elect [[Bobby Jindal]] named him to chair the Transition Advisory Group on Coastal Restoration and Flood Control.  

In 2007, Pitre declined to seek a third term and Gisclair in a runoff defeated newly-minted Republican Theriot. In the preceding primary on October 20, 2007, Theriot led with 4,797 votes (37 percent) to Gisclair 's  4,396 (33.8 percent). The balance was held by a second Democrat, John Melancon, Jr., with 3,821 votes (29.4 percent). In the general election in November 2007, Gisclair defeated Theriot by 121 votes, 4,128 (50.7 percent) to 4,007 (49.3 percent, in still another narrow race in the highly competitive district. Meanwhile, as Pitre completed his eight years in the legislature, [[Governor]]-elect [[Bobby Jindal]] named him to chair the Transition Advisory Group on Coastal Restoration and Flood Control.  

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