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Keva Landrum
Keva Landrum was a judge for Section E of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in Louisiana. She left office on July 17, 2020.
Landrum (Democratic Party) ran for election for Orleans Parish District Attorney in Louisiana. She lost in the general election on December 5, 2020.
In 2008, Landrum finished the term of retired Judge Calvin Johnson before beginning a full six-year term the following January.[1][2][3][4]
Elections
2020
See also: City elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2020)
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
General election
General election for Orleans Parish District Attorney
Jason Williams defeated Keva Landrum in the general election for Orleans Parish District Attorney on December 5, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jason Williams (D) | 57.8 | 41,564 |
 | Keva Landrum (D) | 42.2 | 30,325 | |
| Total votes: 71,889 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Orleans Parish District Attorney
Keva Landrum and Jason Williams defeated Arthur L. Hunter Jr. and Morris Reed Sr. in the primary for Orleans Parish District Attorney on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Keva Landrum (D) | 34.8 | 55,487 |
| ✔ | | Jason Williams (D) | 29.4 | 46,977 |
| Arthur L. Hunter Jr. (D) | 27.7 | 44,149 | ||
| Morris Reed Sr. (D) | 8.1 | 12,975 | ||
| Total votes: 159,588 | |||
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2014
See also: Louisiana judicial elections, 2014
Landrum ran for re-election to the Orleans Parish Criminal Court.
As an unopposed candidate, she was automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot.
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Keva Landrum did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Education
Landrum received her undergraduate degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and her J.D. from the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.[5]
Career
Landrum worked in the New Orleans District Attorney's office for ten years prior to her judicial election in 2008. She served there as an assistant district attorney, a homicide and sex crimes screener, the chief of screening, and as an interim first assistant district attorney. In November of 2007, Landrum-Johnson became the first female district attorney in Louisiana, taking charge of the New Orleans office.[5]
Noteworthy cases
State of Louisiana v. Thomas "Haller" Jackson
On January 8, 2014, Thomas Jackson, (aka Thomas J. Jackson IV or T. Haller Jackson IV), a law clerk for federal judge Susie Morgan of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana was arrested and charged with aggravated attempted rape and the solicitation of a minor. He pleaded not guilty to both charges.[6]
In December 2013, Jackson used the gay social-networking smartphone application known as Grindr, and offered up $500 to a user if he helped him arrange a sexual encounter with a boy younger than eleven. The Grindr user then took screen shots of the exchange and sent them to the FBI. An FBI agent then assumed the user's identity and notified Jackson that he found a ten-year old boy, at which, Jackson promptly responded: "Hook it up!!:)." They agreed on the amount of $500. Jackson arrived at the designated location and called the number he was given in order to verify that the boy was there. Jackson was arrested soon thereafter. Authorities recovered four condoms, a bottle of Premium Iron Horse (a leather cleaner that can be used as a stimulant aphrodisiac), lubricant and a total of $516 in cash, on Jackson's person.[6][7]
The case was assigned to Judge Landrum who set bail at $30,000 for each charge, placed Jackson on an electronic monitoring program, ordered him to surrender his passport and requested he refrain from all contact with children.[6]
Jackson's employment as a law clerk was terminated the day after his arrest. He had worked as a clerk for Judge Morgan since January 2012. Jackson received his J.D. in 2008 from the Tulane Law School, graduating with a 4.0 grade point average. His attorney has stated that Jackson will post bond and will soon be released from custody.[6][7]
Pre-trial hearings in the case were continued until July.[8]
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ NOLA.com: New Orleans Metro Real Time News, "Landrum-Johnson wins judicial post," July 21, 2008
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Elected Officials," accessed December 9, 2014 (Select "By Parish" and "ORLEANS")
- ↑ Judgepedia.org, “Judicial selection in Louisiana,” accessed December 8, 2014
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Louisiana Secretary of State, "November 4, 2014 General Election Candidates," accessed August 25, 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Krewe of Truth, "DA Landrum-Johnson announces for Criminal Court Judge, Section E," June 4, 2008
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 The Times-Picayune, "Federal judge's law clerk denies charges of attempted rape, solicitation of a young child," January 10, 2014
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Advocate, "Federal law clerk charged in child rape attempt using smartphone app," January 13, 2014
- ↑ Slabbed, "Weekend Update," May 25, 2014
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