Richard Ieyoub

Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. (born August 11, 1944), is a Baton Rouge lawyer and a Democratic politician who was the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992 to 2004. Ieyoub was the Calcasieu Parish district attorney in Lake Charles from 1984 to 1992, and is now with the Baton Rouge firm Couhig Partners. Allied with his party's liberal wing, Ieyoub finished in third place in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the U.S. Senate in 1996, and for the Louisiana governorship in 2003.

Early years and education

Ieyoub (pronounced "EYE-oob") is of Arab extraction. He was born in Lake Charles to Phillip Assad Ieyoub and the former Virginia Khoury. He graduated in 1962 from Lake Charles High School, later renamed Lake Charles Boston High School and since closed.

Ieyoub received his bachelor's degree in history in 1968 from McNeese State University (then College) in Lake Charles and his Juris Doctor degree in 1972 from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. He was admitted to the bar and licensed to practice in Louisiana and before the United States Supreme Court.