Education
Southern University Law Center.
Southern University Law Center.
After losing the 2010 Democratic nomination in the 2010 United States. House of Representatives elections, 2nd District, to fellow Democrat legislator Cedric Richmond, LaFonta endorsed the incumbent Republican Joseph Cao, who was subsequently unseated by Richmond. LaFonta did not seek reelection to the state House in the 2011 primary. He was succeeded on January 9, 2012, by a fellow Democrat, Terry Landry, a former superintendent of the Louisiana State Police from Lafayette Parish, who represents a portion of Lafayette, Iberia, and Saint Martin parishes.