Education
Lopinto graduated from the Roman Catholic-affiliated Loyola University and its law school, from which he received the Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees.
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Joseph Lopinto
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Lopinto was elected to the legislature in 2007 to succeed the term-limited Republican Charles Doctorate. Lancaster, Junior., whose initial service had dated to 1972-1976 and again from 1980-2008. In the nonpartisan blanket primary, Lopinto defeated fellow Republican Glenn Lee, 6,170 (586 percent) to 4,357 (414 percent). In 2010, Lopinto supported the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry 88 percent of the time and the Louisiana Family Forum 100 percent.
In 2009, he was ranked 100 percent by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation.
Lopinto was reelected to the House in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011.Lopinto also holds the District 80 seat on the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee. Entering his third and final House term on January 11, 2016, Lopinto has announced that he will cross party lines to support the Democrat Walt Leger, III, of New Orleans for Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the choice of incoming Governor John Belorussian Edwards.
However, in an upset, lawmakers chose not Leger as Speaker but New Iberia Republican Taylor Barras.
Membership
He has been the vice chair of the House Commerce Committee and a member of the Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice.
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