Education
In 1971, Shadoin graduated from Ruston High School and in 1975 obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Louisiana Technical University, at which he a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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He is an attorney in Ruston, Louisiana. In 1978, he received his Juris Doctor degree from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. From 1991 to 1994, Shadoin served as the Ruston city attorney.
Shadoin defeated fellow Republican, Jason Paul Bullock (born 1977), also of Ruston, in the general election held on November 19, 2011, to choose a successor to Republican Hollis Downs, a professor at Louisiana Technical University.
In a low-turnout contest, Shadoin received 4,186 votes (544 percent) to Bullock"s 3,513 votes (456 percent). In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, Bullock had led the balloting with 45 percent, with Shadoin trailing at 39 percent.
A third Republican candidate, Jacob "Jake" Halley, of Farmerville, a consultant with an emergency preparedness company, held the remaining but critical 16 percent of the primary vote. Number Democrat sought the position.
Halley emphasized the need to promote tourism in both parishes.
Bullock, who operates a business that rents construction equipment, the importance of small business, and Shadoin, his legal and political experience and a call for streamling and repeal of unnecessary laws. In May 2013, Shadoin spoke at the Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association event, "Laissez Louisiana Film Rouler" held in Baton Rouge to support the state"s film industry. In 2013, Shadoin voted for a judicial pay raise, which the legislature approved.
He favored the removal of term limits on judges, but that amendment failed in the House.
He supported a state law which now requires that women working for the state receive the same pay as men in the same job, something already required under a federal provision in 1963. Shadoin voted with the House majority to oppose reductions on penalties for possession of marijuana, to prohibit state enforcement of federal firearm regulations on weapon manufacturers, and to prohibit the publication in the public record of the names of those with concealed weapon permits.
Shadoin"s legislative ratings have ranged from 44 to 62 percent from the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. In 2012, he was rated 40 percent by the National Federation of Independent Business, low business scores for a Republican legislator.
In 2013 and 2014, he was rated 88 and 89 percent, respectively, by the conservative Louisiana Family Forum.
In 2013 and 2014, Louisiana Right to Life scored him 75 and 100 percent, respectively. In 2013 and 2014, the Louisiana Association of Educators rated him 67 and 75 percent, respectively. In 2013, Shadoin and State Senator Mike Walsworth of West Monroe obtained passage of legislation to name the Louisiana Highway 33 bridge over Lake Doctorate’Arbonne in Farmerville in honor of the late State Representative James Peyton Smith of Union Parish.
Shadoin"s district includes a part of the territory once represented by Smith, whom Shadoin calls "one of the greatest men of Union Parish".
Shadoin is unopposed for reelection to a second term in the House in the October 24, 2015, primary election.
Membership
From 1994 to 2006, he was a member of the Lincoln Parish School Board. Shadoin is a member of these House committees: (1) Civil Law and Procedure, (2) Education, and (3) Judiciary.
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