and attended Sheriff's Academy; sheriff of Caddo Parish since 2000 (R) Phil Preis (class of 1972, B.S. in accounting), Baton Rouge attorney and candidate for governor in 1995 and 1999 (D) R–S Melvin Rambin, 1965 M.B.A, banker in Baton Rouge and Monroe; mayor of Monroe 2000–2001 (R) John Rarick, attended U.S. Army program at LSU; former Sixth District (Baton Rouge-based) congressman (D) turned (Independent) Jerome "Dee" Richard, Class of 1978, current member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafourche Parish, one of only two Independents in the chamber Charles Addison Riddle III, District Attorney from Avoyelles Parish (12th Judicial District); state representative 1992–2003 (D) Joel Robideaux (master's in finance), state representative (R) Jacques Roy, mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana (D) Alvin Benjamin Rubin, federal judge 1965–1991 (D) A. T. "Apple" Sanders, Jr., member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from East Baton Rouge Parish 1956–1964 Lucy Sanders, CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology Steve Scalise, U.S. representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district (R) Alan Seabaugh, attorney and state representative from Caddo Parish (R) Henry Clay Sevier, state representative from Madison Parish, 1936–1952 (D) J. Minos Simon, late Lafayette attorney (D) Eric Skrmetta (Class of 1981), member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission (R) Patricia Haynes Smith (graduate studies), Democratic state representative from Baton Rouge since 2008 David Theophilus Stafford, sheriff of Rapides Parish 1888–1904 and state adjutant general 1904–1912; studied at Louisiana Seminary of Learning, a forerunner to LSU (D) Tom Stagg, U.S. District Court judge from Shreveport, former political activist (R) Richard Stalder, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections 1992–2008; began work as a penologist while attending LSU Victor T. "Vic" Stelly, former state representative from Calcasieu Parish and author of the Stelly Plan (I) Raymond Strother (bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism), regional and national political consultant (D) T–Z Lloyd George Teekell (Class of 1948), state representative from Rapides Parish 1953–1960; judge of the 9th Judicial District Court 1979–1990 (D) Sam H. Theriot, former member of the Louisiana House from Vermilion Parish and former Vermilion Parish clerk of court; social studies teacher, received PhD in educational administration in 2009 (D) Major Thibaut (Class of 1999), state representative for District 18; businessman in New Roads Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden; previously, a diplomat in the Obama Administration T. Ashton Thompson, United