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Edmond J. Muniz was serving his first term as mayor of the city of Kenner, Louisiana — a municipality of 75,000 in the northwest corner of Jefferson Parish. Having served on the Jefferson Parish Council from 1987 through 2003, he came out of political retirement to run for mayor and posted a decisive win in the April 29, 2006, runoff election.
A Republican, Batt served as the only member of his party on the New Orleans City Council, from 2002 to 2006, having represented District A. . District A runs from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain just below the Jefferson Parish line in New Orleans.
Jason Rogers Williams (born November 2, 1972) is an American politician and attorney who is the Orleans Parish district attorney; he assumed office in 2021. From 2014 to 2021, Williams served as the Second Division Councilmember-at-large on the New Orleans City Council.
Office holders for terms before 2022 and reference notes for those office holders are from the City Archives at the New Orleans Public Library. Office holders for the 2022-2026 term are from the Louisiana Secretary of State election results for the November 13, 2021, general election and the December 11, 2021, runoff election .
The 12th, 13th, and 14th Wards were formed by annexation of land up river from the older city of New Orleans that had been Jefferson City and Greenville; the 15th by the annexation of the city of Algiers, Louisiana across the Mississippi River from the rest of the city, and finally the 16th and 17th Wards formed from the annexed city of Carrollton.
Stacy Head was elected to the New Orleans City Council in 2006, defeating incumbent Renée Gill Pratt.Councilmember Head's candidacy benefited from concerns about governmental effectiveness and efficiency in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, developers who had obviated the desires of neighborhood residents, and affinities between incumbent Gill Pratt and then-Congressman ...
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post–World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of ...
In 2021, Morrell won a seat on the New Orleans City Council representing the Division 2 at-large seat. He succeed Donna Glapion. Morrell faced fellow Democrats Kristin Palmer and Jared Brossett in the November 13, 2021 election for a seat on the City Council, and was elected with an outright majority of 50.7% against Palmer's 31.7% and Brossett ...