Career
In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015, Luneau, who is white, defeated an African-American Republican candidate, attorney and Baptist minister Joshua Joy Dara, Senior (born March 1959 in Nigeria). Luneau polled 13,462 votes (593 percent) to Dara"s 9,225 (407 percent).
The position opened when the African-American Democrat lawyer Rick Gallot of Ruston, who previously served as well in the Louisiana House of Representatives, did not seek a second term.
Luneau graduated from Pineville High School, Louisiana Technical University in Ruston in 1986, and the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge in 1992. He has also taught on an adjunct basis at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.
He is a volunteer at the Renaissance Home for Youth.
