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==Legal career==
==Legal career==
Tate was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1948 and practiced law in Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish from 1948 to 1954, when he became judge of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal. Thereafter, he was presiding judge of Louisiana's Third Circuit for a decade;<ref name=lahist/> one of his law clerks was [[Bobby Culpepper]], later a long-term lawyer and Democratic politician in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2015/08/17/jonesboro-attorney-bobby-culpepper-dies/31853081/|title=Jonesboro attorney Bobby Culpepper dies|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> Tate became associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for a brief tenure in 1958 and again for nearly the entire decade of the 1970s.
Tate was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1948 and practiced law in Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish from 1948 to 1954, when he became judge of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal. Thereafter, he was presiding judge of Louisiana's Third Circuit for a decade;<ref name=lahist/> one of his law clerks was [[Bobby Culpepper]], later a long-term lawyer and Democratic politician in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2015/08/17/jonesboro-attorney-bobby-culpepper-dies/31853081/|title=Jonesboro attorney Bobby Culpepper dies|publisher=''Monroe News Star]]''|accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> Tate became associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for a brief tenure in 1958 and again for nearly the entire decade of the 1970s.
During his long legal career, Tate held many judicial committee chairmanships and took an active role in promoting legal and court reforms. He was vice-chairman of the Committee on Court Modernization in 1972-1974 and chairman of the committee to Implement Standards of Criminal Justice from 1975 to 1976. He was on the board of editors of ''Judges Journal'' from 1972 to 1975.<ref name=lahist/>
During his long legal career, Tate held many judicial committee chairmanships and took an active role in promoting legal and court reforms. He was vice-chairman of the Committee on Court Modernization in 1972-1974 and chairman of the committee to Implement Standards of Criminal Justice from 1975 to 1976. He was on the board of editors of ''Judges Journal'' from 1972 to 1975.<ref name=lahist/>