Billy Lutes
Billy Gene Lutes, I (December 18, 1931 â February 3, 2006), was a lawyer and businessman from his native Colfax in Grant Parish, Louisiana, who served as a district attorney and a judge of his state's 35th Judicial District.
| Billy Gene Lutes, I | |
District Attorney for Grant Parish
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| In office January 1, 1973 â November 15, 1980 | |
| Succeeded by | Joe Beck, II |
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Judge of the 35th Judicial District (Grant Parish)
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| In office January 1, 1981 â March 1, 1994 | |
| Preceded by | Wilbur Teal "Brandy" McCain |
| Born | December 18, 1931 Colfax, Grant Parish Louisiana |
| Died | February 3, 2006 Colfax, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Virginia Lee Marler Lutes (married 1960-2006, his death) |
| Children | Julianne Lutes Despino Billy Lutes, II |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
A son of Paul E. Lutes, Sr., (1908-1984) and the former Clara Sheets (1905-1997), he enlisted in the United States Army and served in an engineering battalion in the Korean War. Thereafter, he attended the Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville and then earned law degrees from both Loyola University in New Orleans and the University of Mississippi at Oxford. In addition to his Colfax law practice, he owned and operated Lutesville Sand and Gravel Company, which makes asphalt and ready-mix concrete for the construction industry.[1]
Lutes was elected district attorney in 1972 and served until his resignation on November 15, 1980. He was succeeded by his law partner, Joe Beck, II. A Democrat, Lutes was elected in 1980 a judge of the district court, a post from which he retired in early 1994.[2]
Lutes sat on the boards of the Alexandria Country Day School in Alexandria, Louisiana, and of the Kisatchie Delta Law Enforcement agency. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and a Shriner. He was an Eagle Scout and past den leader of the Attakapas Council of the Boy Scouts of America at Alexandria Country Day School. He was a board member of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Boyce in northwestern Rapides Parish.[1]
In 1960, Lutes married the former Virginia Lee Marler (1935-2017), daughter of James Everett Marler, I (died 1979), and the former Wilma Bunch (1906-1995). The Luteses had two children, both of Colfax, Julianne Despino (born March 14, 1962) and husband Randall Holden Despino (born March 8, 1961), and Billy Lutes, II (born March 31, 1964), and wife Cheryl Denise Lutes (born October 25, 1966). The Luteses and Marlers are interred at Colfax Cemetery.[3]
References
- â 1.0 1.1 Billy Gene Lutes. Findagrave.com. Retrieved on September 14, 2017.
- â District Judge B. G. Lutes resigns. The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (March 5, 1994). Retrieved on September 15, 2017.
- â Virginia Lee Marler Lutes. The Alexandria Town Talk. Retrieved on September 14, 2017.