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==Legal career==

==Legal career==

Methvin settled in Alexandria, not only because he had  been born there, but he determined that there was a greater need for lawyers in Rapides Parish than in other locations which he may have considered settling. Soon, he was active in legal and civic circles: assistant [[district attorney]] from 1953 to 1955, president of the Junior Chamber International at the age of thirty-one in 1955, and president of the Alexandria Bar Association from 1963 to 1964. He practiced with, among other lawyers, Howard  Battle Gist, Jr. (1919-2011), who was prior to 1973 the Alexandria city attorney in three mayoral administrations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?pid=153189963|title=Howard Battle Gist, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=October 7, 2014}}</ref> Methvin was known for his brief and poignant cross-examinations in the courtroom. He was a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers. From 1972 to 1981, he was the first chairman of the Louisiana Board of Ethics for Elected Officials.<ref name=dtmjrbio/> One of the firm's legal secretaries, Jackie Pope Adams (1922-2013), a native of Columbia in Marion County, [[Mississippi]], was the secretary to the Alexandria City Council and the city clerk after adoption of the [[home rule]] charter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Adams&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1119&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=117861387&df=all&|title=Jackie Pope Adams|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 7, 2014}}</ref>

Methvin settled in Alexandria, not only because he had  been born there, but he determined that there was a greater need for lawyers in Rapides Parish than in other locations which he may have considered settling. Soon, he was active in legal and civic circles: assistant [[district attorney]] from 1953 to 1955, president of the Junior Chamber International at the age of thirty-one in 1955, and president of the Alexandria Bar Association from 1963 to 1964. He practiced with, among other lawyers, Howard  Battle Gist, Jr. (1919-2011), who was prior to 1973 the Alexandria city attorney in three mayoral administrations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?pid=153189963|title=Howard Battle Gist, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=October 7, 2014}}</ref> Methvin was known for his brief and poignant cross-examinations in the courtroom. He was a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers. From 1972 to 1981, he was the first chairman of the Louisiana Board of Ethics for Elected Officials.<ref name=dtmjrbio/> One of the firm's legal secretaries, Jackie Pope Adams (1922-2013), a native of Columbia in Marion County, [[Mississippi]], was the secretary to the Alexandria City Council and the city clerk after adoption of the [[home rule]] charter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Adams&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1119&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=117861387&df=all&|title=Jackie Pope Adams|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 7, 2014}}</ref>

==Personal life==

==Personal life==