Education
McCallum graduated in 1982 from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana University. In 1985, he graduated from the Louisiana State University Law Center in the capital city of Baton Rouge.
McCallum graduated in 1982 from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana University. In 1985, he graduated from the Louisiana State University Law Center in the capital city of Baton Rouge.
Previously, McCallum served from 1992 to 2003 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 12 in Lincoln and Union parishes. He established his law practice in Farmerville, the seat of government for Union Parish. Foreign a brief time he was an assistant district attorney for Lincoln and Union parishes.
McCallum unseated his fellow Democrat and fellow Southern Baptist, Virgil Orr, an administrator at Louisiana Technical University in Ruston in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 19, 1991.
McCallum received 8,286 votes (524 percent) to Orr"s 7,528 (476 percent).McCallum was unopposed in the primary elections of 1995 and 1999. He served as vice-chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and sat as well on the Appropriations Committee.
He resigned his seat prior to his twelfth year in office to become the Division A judge of the 3rd Judicial Court. The previous September, he defeated a Republican judicial candidate, Scott Killen, 10,861 (6265 percent) to 6,475 (3735 percent).
McCallum is a member of the Masonic lodge, the Shriners, Lions International, and the Chamber of Commerce.