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In 1979, Connick graduated from Archbishop Shaw High School.
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He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 from the Catholic Loyola University in New Orleans. Ten years later, in 1993, Connick received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Foreign his first term in the House, Connick, who had no previous political experience, ran without opposition in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007, for the seat vacated by the three-term Democrat New Jersey Damico.
He serves on these House committees: (1) Appropriations, (2) Governmental Affairs, (3) Judiciary, (4) Executive, and (5) Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.
In 2010, Connick supported the conservative Louisiana Family Forum 80% of the time, compared to 100 percent in 2009. He received 100 percent from the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry in 2010 but only 58% in 2009.
He was rated 100% in 2009 by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation. In June 2011, Connick obtained House approval of a resolution authorizing the state legislative auditor, Darry Purpera, to examine possible improper uses of toll revenues in metropolitan New Orleans.
Connick has been a critic of certain spending practices of the Crescent City Connection, a section of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
Foreign his second term in the House, Connick again ran unopposed. He resides in Harvey, a census-designated place in Jefferson Parish.
