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|name=Mitchell Ray "Mitch" Theriot​

|name=Mitchell Ray "Mitch" Theriot​

|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for District 54 (Jefferson<br> and Lafourche parishes)​

|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 54 (Jefferson<br> and Lafourche parishes)​

|term_start=1992​

|term_start=1992​

|term_end=2000​

|term_end=2000​

|preceded=Jessie P. Guidry ​

|preceded=Jessie P. Guidry ​

|succeeded=Loulan J. Pitre, Jr.

|succeeded=Loulan J. Pitre, Jr.

|birth_date=July 18, 1963​

|birth_place=Raceland, Lafourche Parish​​

|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]​​

|alma_mater=

|birth_date=July 18, ​1963

|occupation=[[Dentist]

|birth_place=Reared in Golden Meadow in Lafourche Parish​​

|spouse=​Veronica Gautreaux Theriot

|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]] (2007)​​

|occupation=[[Attorney]] and [[Judge]]

|alma_mater=South Lafourche<br> High School (Cut-Off)

Loyola Law School<br> ([[New Orleans]])​

|spouse=Veronica Gautreaux Theriot

Livingston C. and Barbara Peck Theriot

|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]​}}

|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]​}}

'''Mitchell Ray Theriot''', known as '''Mitch Theriot''' (born July 18, 1963), is a [[dentist]] who practices with David and Daniel Melancon in Houma in Terrebonne Parish, [[Louisiana]]. He resides in Raceland in Lafourche Parish,<ref name=mylife/> and from 1992 to 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Historical Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> served as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for two terms for District 54 (Jefferson and Lafourche parishes). In 2007, he switched to [[Republican Party|Republican]] affiliation. and soon lost his bid to return to the state House.<ref name=mylife>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mitchell-theriot/mitchell_theriot?valid=true&|title= Mitchell Theriot - Raceland|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref>

'''Mitchell Ray Theriot''', known as '''Mitch Theriot''' (born July 18, 1963), is an [[attorney]] and [[judge]] from Raceland, [[Louisiana]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mitchell-theriot/mitchell_theriot?valid=true&|title=Mitchell Theriot|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 5, 2020}}</ref> who also served from 1992 to 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Historical Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for two terms for District 54 (Jefferson and Lafourche parishes). In 2007, he switched to [[Republican Party|Republican]] affiliation. and soon lost his bid to return to the state House.  

In the 1999 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] Theriot was unseated by the Republican Loulan J. Pitre, Jr., an attorney who was born in 1961 in Cut-Off in Lafourche Parish. Pitre polled, 7,187 votes (51.5 percent) to  6,768 (48.5 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref> In 2003, Pitre again defeated Theriot by nearly the same total as he had in 1999, 7,618 (votes 52 percent) to 7,035 (48 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 4, 2003.</ref> When Pitre declined to  seek a third term in 2007, Theriot ran to reclaim the seat after an eight-year absence, but after his party switch, he lost to the Democrat Jerry "Truck" Gisclair of Larose in Lafourche Parish, a businessman and radio station broadcaster.

Theriot is the third of four sons of Livingston C. "Budd" Theriot (born 1936) and the former Barbara Peck (1937-2017) of Golden Meadow in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183794109/barbara-theriot|title=Barbara Peck Theriot|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> Theriot is married to the former Veronica Gautreaux, a nurse for the Cardiovascular Institute of the South. The couple has three children, Stuart, Tyler, and Emilee Theriot. He resides in Raceland in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119062709/http://mitchtheriotforjudge.com/endorsements.html|title=Devoted Family Man|publisher=Mitchtheriotforjudge.com|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref>

In 2007, Pitre declined to seek a third term and Gisclair in a runoff defeated newly-minted Republican Theriot. In the preceding primary on October 20, 2007, Theriot led with 4,797 votes (37 percent) to Gisclair 's  4,396 (33.8 percent). The balance was held by a second Democrat, John Melancon, Jr., with 3,821 votes (29.4 percent). In the general election in November 2007, Gisclair defeated Theriot by 121 votes, 4,128 (50.7 percent) to 4,007 (49.3 percent, in still another narrow race in the highly competitive district. Meanwhile, as Pitre completed his eight years in the legislature, [[Governor]]-elect [[Bobby Jindal]] named him to chair the Transition Advisory Group on Coastal Restoration and Flood Control. Shortly after Pitre left the state House in 2008, he changed his voter registration to [[Independent voter|Independent]].

 

 

 

In 2007, Pitre declined to seek a third term and Gisclair in a runoff defeated newly-minted Republican Theriot. In the preceding primary on October 20, 2007, Theriot led with 4,797 votes (37 percent) to Gisclair 's  4,396 (33.8 percent). The balance was held by a second Democrat, John Melancon, Jr., with 3,821 votes (29.4 percent). In the general election in November 2007, Gisclair defeated Theriot by 121 votes, 4,128 (50.7 percent) to 4,007 (49.3 percent, in still another narrow race in the highly competitive district.  

 

In 2012, Theriot was elected to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, District 1, Division B for a term of ten years though he had trailed in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]]. The judgeship covers eight parishes. Still a Republican, Theriot polled 33.7 percent of the vote in the primary. He then defeated Democrat William Dupont in the runoff election on December 8, 2012. In that contest Theriot polled 25,793 votes (53 percent) to Dupont's 22,783 (47 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mitch_Theriot|title=Mitch Theriot|publisher=Ballotpedia|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 8, 2012.</ref>

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