Background
Foil was born and raised in Baton Rouge, as one of two sons of Frank Foil and the former Judith Johnson.
Foil was born and raised in Baton Rouge, as one of two sons of Frank Foil and the former Judith Johnson.
He graduated from Louisiana State University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and in 1991 received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University Law School in New Orleans.
In 2008, he succeeded term-limited Republican Representative Carl Crane, the former chairman of the House Education Committee. He is also a United States. Navy veteran, a Captain in the Navy Reserve Judge Advocate General"s Corps, and has served as Judge Pro Tempore at the Baton Rouge City Court. Tanja has a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Louisiana State University. She is a Sustaining Advisor for the Junior League of Baton Rouge.
In his first bid for political office, Foil defeated Metro Councilman Pat Culbertson in the general election held on November 17, 2007: 5,399 (53 percent) to 4,809 (47 percent) in a small-turnout election.
A third Republican candidate, self-styled "Reagan conservative" Aidan Reynolds, also an attorney, drew only 11 percent of the vote. Culbertson was the target of negative mail-outs and television advertisements funded by Lane Grigsby, a Baton Rouge contractor.
The ads worked to Foil"s benefit. Foil was easily reelected in the primary election held on October 22, 2011.
He defeated the Independent Greg Baldwin, 6,947 votes (774 percent) to 2,033 (226 percent).
In the 2015 Louisiana legislative session, Foil co-authored HB 523, a bill to bring some funding out from the protections of the Louisiana constitution.