Harney Felix Brunot

Harney Felix Brunot (October 8, 1860 – March 11, 1944) was a Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from June 4, 1923 to December 31, 1936.[1][2]

Born in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana,[1] to Robert Felix Brunot and Jane Elizabeth Brunot, née Neeley,[3] Brunot received an LL.B. from Tulane University in 1882. He was a city attorney for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from 1884 to 1896, when he became a judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court. He held that office until 1921, except for a period from 1904 to 1906 when he held the office of State Printer. From 1921 to 1923, he was a judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court,[1] and was then elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1923,[4] remaining there until 1936.[1]

Brunot's wife, Alice M. Magee, was the state law librarian.[1] They had a son and a daughter.[3]

References
  1. "Harney Felix Brunot (1860 - 1944)". Louisiana Supreme Court. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  2. "Louisiana Supreme Court Justices, 1813-Present". Louisiana Supreme Court. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  3. "Death Notices", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 13, 1944), p. 18.
  4. "Jones Being Elected Judge", The Alexandria Town Talk (July 24, 1923), p. 3.


Political offices
Preceded by
Robert Reid		 Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
1923–1936		 Succeeded by
Amos Lee Ponder


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