Law Enforcement Career

• March 1967 - December 1971  Entered law enforcement with the Ruston Police Department as a Patrolman.  Resigned in December of 1971 to join the Lincoln Parish Sheriffs Department.

• January 1972 - August 1980  Hired by Sheriff Jesse J. Riser as a Deputy Sheriff to work in Criminal Patrol and later was assigned as Criminal Investigator.  Also served as the first Deputy Coroner (Non Medical), in Lincoln Parish.  Resigned from the Sheriffs Office in August of 1980 to run for the un-expired term of the late Marshal, Charles Humphries.

• October 1980 - December 1980  Hired as a Deputy Marshal by the then appointed Marshal, Jan Humphries, daughter of the late Marshal, Charles Humphries.

• January 1981 - Present  Was elected as Marshal of the Ruston City Court in October of 1980 and was sworn into office in January of 1981.  Elected from a field of seven candidates in the first primary.  Re-elected in 1985, 1991, 1997 and 2003.