Background
PEATROSS, CHARLES was born on May 27, 1940 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
PEATROSS, CHARLES was born on May 27, 1940 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
Tulane University of Louisiana (Bachelor of Business Administration, 1963. Juris Doctor, 1964). Law Clerk, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Louisiana, 1964-1965. Instructor, Louisiana Real Estate Law, Louisiana State University-Shreveport, 1971-1972.
Member, 1978-1982 and Chairman, 1982, City Council, City of Shreveport. City Attorney, City of Shreveport, 1983-1985. Of Counsel, Office of City Attorney, City of Shreveport, 1985-1988.
Louisiana State Chairman, National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1984-1985.
Peatross was the older of two sons of Sydney Kerley Peatross (1913-2003) and the former Margaret Brinkmann (1916-1987), she being the only child of Francis Charles Brinkmann, Jr. (1890-1967), and the former Greenwood Hardy (1892-1986). The next year, he obtained a Juris Doctor from the Tulane University Law School.
From 1965 to 1966, he was a clerk for the Shreveport-based Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit. Thereafter, he worked in the private practice law in Shreveport until 1996, when he was elected to the circuit court for which he had clerked as a young lawyer. He was reelected without opposition to the court in 2002 and retired in 2011.
The courts covers twenty parishes in North Louisiana. Peatross was a former president of the Second Circuit Judges Association and the Shreveport Bar Association and a former state chairman of the National Institute of Law Officers.A Democrat, Peatross was succeeded on the court by a Republican, Frances Jones Pitman, a former state district court judge. Peatross was also the Shreveport city attorney.
In 1978, he was elected to the first Shreveport City Council under the new mayor-council government, which replaced the former city commission. He served on the council along with former Mayor James C. Gardner during the administration of Mayor William T. "Bill" Hanna. Peatross was the city council chairman in 1982.
He also practiced law in Colorado and was active in the bar associations of both states. He was affiliated with the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA, and the American Red Cross.
Shreveport (Secretary-Treasurer and Member of Executive Committee, 1971-1972. Chairman, Young Lawyers Section, 1970), Louisiana State (.