Pike Hall Jr.

Pike Hall Jr.
Pike Hall Jr.
Caddo Parish School Board; at-large member
	In office; 1964–1970
Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit
	In office; 1971–1990
Chief Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit
	In office; 1985–1990
Associate Justice of the; Louisiana Supreme Court
	In office; 1990–1994
Succeeded by	Jeffrey P. Victory
Personal details
Born	May 27, 1931; Shreveport, Caddo Parish; Louisiana, USA
Died	November 25, 1999 (aged 68); Shreveport, Louisiana
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Anne Oden Hall
Relations	George W. Jack (great-uncle); Whitfield Jack (first cousin once removed); Wellborn Jack (first cousin once removed)
Children	Brevard Hall Knight; Pike Hall III; Five grandchildren
Parents	William Pike Hall, Sr.; Hazel Tucker Hall
Residence	Shreveport, Louisiana
Alma mater	C. E. Byrd High School; Washington and Lee University; Louisiana State University Law Center
Occupation	Lawyer

William Pike Hall Jr., known as Pike Hall Jr. (May 27, 1931 – November 25, 1999),[1][2] was an attorney, judge, and Democratic politician from Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana.

Background

Hall was the younger of two children of William Pike Hall, Sr., an attorney, civic figure, and state senator from 1924 to 1932, and the former Hazel Tucker, originally from Haughton in Bossier Parish.[3] His sister is Hazel Hall Schaffer (born September 1929) of Shreveport. Hall married the former Anne Oden (October 1931 – November 14, 2016), a native of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, who moved to Shreveport in 1936. She graduated in 1950 from C. E. Byrd High School, at which she was a cheerleader and a football sweetheart. She briefly attended Mary Baldwin College in Virginia and transferred to LSU Baton Rouge, at which she joined Chi Omega sorority.[4] The Halls had a daughter, Brevard Hall Knight (1952-2014), an educator and businesswoman, and a son, Pike Hall, III.[5]

Hall was a great-nephew of Judge George W. Jack of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and a first cousin once removed of Shreveport attorneys Whitfield Jack and Wellborn Jack, the latter a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish from 1940 to 1964.[6]

Hall was a member of the Methodist denomination.[7]

Career

Hall was attending C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport when his father suddenly died in December 1945 at the age of forty-nine. Thereafter, he was sent to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, Louisiana State University, and then the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, from which he received a Juris Doctor degree in 1953. In 1988, he was made an honorary member of the Order of the Coif at LSU. Like his father, he was highly involved in all levels of the bar association and for several years was the vice chairman of the Louisiana Judicial College.[8]

Hall practiced with the Shreveport firm Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody & Hall. He was for four years the assistant city attorney under Mayor James C. Gardner. On November 3, 1964, Hall was elected to the Caddo Parish School Board, along with the first three Republican members ever elected to the board.[9] In 1970, Hall did not seek reelection to the school board but was instead elected to the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, based in Shreveport. He remained on the appeal court from 1971 to 1990, the last five as the chief judge. From 1990 to 1994, he served as an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court[7] but stepped down after four years and was succeeded by Jeffrey P. Victory, a Shreveport lawyer elected as a Democrat but who later switched parties.

Hall died in Shreveport five years after he retired from the Supreme Court. LSU sponsors a "Pike Hall Jr. Law Professorship". The appeals court building in Shreveport is named in his honor. It is the first court building in Louisiana designed and built for use as an appeals court.

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References

Technically, he was Hall III; his father (1896–1945) used the suffix "Jr." After his father's death at the age of forty-nine, Pike Hall assumed the suffix "Jr.", and his son and grandson became Pike Hall III and IV, respectively. The original William Pike Hall, a district attorney and state court judge, died in 1928.
"Pike Hall Jr". search.ancestry.com. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
"Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness". The Shreveport Times. December 17, 1945. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
"Anne Oden Hall". The Shreveport Times. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
"Brevard Hall Knight". The Shreveport Times. August 29, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
"Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2012: Caddo Parish" (PDF). legis.la.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
"Louisiana: Pike Hall Jr.", Who's Who in American Politics, 2007–2008 (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, New Jersey, 2007), p. 660
"Courthouse Renamed for Hall" (PDF). Louisiana Supreme Court. Winter 2001. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
Shreveport Journal, November 4, 1964

Political offices
Preceded by Missing	Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court William Pike Hall, Jr. 1990–1994	Succeeded by Jeffrey P. Victory

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[1] Technically, he was Hall III; his father (1896–1945) used the suffix "Jr." After his father's death at the age of forty-nine, Pike Hall assumed the suffix "Jr.", and his son and grandson became Pike Hall III and IV, respectively. The original William Pike Hall, a district attorney and state court judge, died in 1928.

[2] "Pike Hall Jr". search.ancestry.com. Retrieved March 27, 2015.

[3] "Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness". The Shreveport Times. December 17, 1945. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

[4] "Anne Oden Hall". The Shreveport Times. Retrieved December 6, 2016.

[5] "Brevard Hall Knight". The Shreveport Times. August 29, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

[6] "Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2012: Caddo Parish" (PDF). legis.la.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

[whoswho-7] "Louisiana: Pike Hall Jr.", Who's Who in American Politics, 2007–2008 (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, New Jersey, 2007), p. 660

[bio-8] "Courthouse Renamed for Hall" (PDF). Louisiana Supreme Court. Winter 2001. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

[9] Shreveport Journal, November 4, 1964