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SPOTLIGHT: Louisiana Black History Makers

First African American Woman

Mayor-President of East Baton
Rouge Parish

John Michael Guidry
15th Chief Judge of Louisiana •
First Circuit Court of Appeal

Former Mayor-President,

first African American to hold this office in East Baton Rouge Parish

Dr. Sito Narcisse
Superintendent of Schools

of the East Baton Rouge

Parish School System

First African American Fire Chief of

the Baton Rouge Fire Department

Director of the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB)

United States Ambassador

to South Africa