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| Lane A. Carson |
April 23, 2008
Lane A. Carson, an alumnus of LSU’s Public Administration Institute in the E. J. Ourso College of Business, has been appointed to the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs to serve as secretary.
A native of Covington, La., Carson is a Vietnam War veteran and a former state legislator. He was the first Vietnam War veteran to serve in the legislature, and has served on the House and Governmental, Civil Law, and Health and Welfare committees and the Veterans and Elderly subcommittees. In 2001, he was selected to serve on the Louisiana Veterans Affairs Commission, representing the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
In 1982, Carson became assistant secretary at the Louisiana Department of Health and Human Resources and later worked as assistant district attorney in St. Tammany Parish, where he has served for more than 20 years as the chief of the Civil Division, 22nd Judicial District Court.
After Carson served on the Veterans Administration's Advisory Committee on the Readjustment of Veterans, President Ronald Reagan appointed him to serve on the Architectural and Transportation Barrier's Compliance Board. In 2003, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the National Institute of Building Sciences.
Carson has been awarded the Purple Heart, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge. He has a Bachelors of Science in Public Administration from LSU and a law degree from Tulane University.
For more information about the E. J. Ourso College, visit www.bus.lsu.edu.
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