Richard Swartz Jr. (Louisiana)
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Richard A. Swartz Jr. (also known as Rick) is a judge of the Louisiana 22nd Judicial District Court.
Swartz (Republican Party) ran for election for judge of the Louisiana 1st Circuit Court of Appeal 3rd District. He lost in the general election on July 11, 2020.
Swartz is the Division C judge of the 22nd Judicial District in Louisiana. He was elected to this position on October 4, 2008, and took office the following January 1st.[1][2][3] He was re-elected in 2014 for a term beginning on January 1, 2015, and expiring on December 31, 2020.[4][5]
Biography
Education
Swartz received his B.A. in pre-law and political science from the University of New Orleans in 1977 and his J.D. from the Louisiana State University Law School in 1978.[2]
Career
Swartz was a private practice lawyer prior to his judicial election in 2008. He also worked as an assistant district attorney for the 22nd Judicial District from 1980 to 1984 and as a judge pro tempore for the Slidell City Court in 2004.[2]
Elections
2021
See also: Louisiana intermediate appellate court elections, 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 Louisiana 1st Circuit Court of Appeal 3rd District
Elizabeth Wolfe defeated Richard A. Swartz Jr. in the general election for Louisiana 1st Circuit Court of Appeal 3rd District on July 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Elizabeth Wolfe (R) | 55.3 | 40,786 |
| Richard A. Swartz Jr. (R) | 44.7 | 32,978 | ||
| Total votes: 73,764 | |||
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2014
See also: Louisiana judicial elections, 2014
Swartz, Jr. ran for re-election to the 22nd Judicial District.
As an unopposed candidate, he was automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot.[5]
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Richard A. Swartz Jr. did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results," October 4, 2008
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 22nd Judicial District, "Hon. Richard A. Swartz, Jr.," accessed December 15, 2014
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Elected Officials," accessed December 9, 2014 (Scroll down to "District Judge…")
- ↑ Judgepedia.org, “Judicial selection in Louisiana,” accessed December 8, 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Louisiana Secretary of State, "November 4, 2014 General Election Candidates," accessed August 25, 2014
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