Education
Hedge-Morrell holds a Bachelor of Administration in Elementary from the University of New Orleans and a Master of Science from Loyola University New Orleans.
Hedge-Morrell holds a Bachelor of Administration in Elementary from the University of New Orleans and a Master of Science from Loyola University New Orleans.
She served on the New Orleans City Council from 2005 to 2014. Hedge-Morrell"s service in the District Doctorate seat on the city council began with a special election on April 2, 2005, to fill the seat vacated by newly elected Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff Marlin North. Gusman. David Payton had held the post on an interim basis but did not enter the special election, which was held some four months before Hurricane Katrina struck.
Hedge-Morrell instead defeated a Republican candidate, Eustis J. Guillemet, Junior.
(born January 1934), 4,959 votes (845 percent) to 912 (155 percent). District Doctorate includes Gentilly and parts of the Upper Ninth Ward, the neighborhoods that were the most seriously damaged by the levee failures of 2005 that accompanied Hurricane Katrina.
Hedge-Morrell was re-elected in 2006 but with a reduced majority. A number of her colleagues faced voter dissatisfaction stemming from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In 2007, Hedge-Morrell faced a political scandal when she was pulled over by Louisiana State Police for driving 100 mph on Interstate 10.
She yelled at the state trooper, "Do you know who I am?. What the hell are you stopping me for?" She later apologized for the incident. In 2014, Hedge-Morrell was term-limited in her District Doctorate council seat and instead ran unsuccessfully for the Division 2 at-large seat.
She was defeated by a two-to-one margin by her fellow Democrat, Jason Williams.
Councilmember, District Doctorate, 2005 Threshold > 50% First Ballot, April 2, 2005
Councilmember, District Doctorate, 2006 Threshold > 50% First Ballot, April 22, 2006.