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Elizabeth Pickett
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Her current term expires in 2022. Pickett is from the town of Many in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana, one of five children born to Judge John South. Pickett, Junior., and the former Joanne Hopkins of Many. In 1984, she received her Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.
From 1990 to 1997, Pickett was a judge of the Sabine Parish-based Louisiana 11th Judicial District Court.
She succeeded her father, John South. Pickett, Junior., in the position upon his retirement. Pickett, Junior., had also served from 1960 to 1968 on the Sabine Parish School Board and from 1968 to 1972 in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
In a special election for the Division A seat on the state circuit court of appeal held on April 5, 1997, Pickett defeated two male candidates from both parties. The vacancy in the eight-parish seat opened when Jeannette Knoll, a Democrat from Marksville in Avoyelles Parish, was elected in 1996 to the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Randolph declined to pursue a runoff election against Pickett, who was subsequently unopposed for two ten-year terms in 2002 and 2012.
He was narrowly defeated by Charles B. Adams, a Republican who polled 4,359 votes (52 percent) to Pickett"s 4,010 ballots (48 percent).
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Pickett received 15,322 votes (437 percent). Democrat Ned Randolph, then the mayor of Alexandria and a former member of both houses of the state legislature, trailed with 9,974 votes (285 percent), and a Republican, John Gutierrez McLure (born April 1946) of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish, received 9,738 (288 percent).
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