Rick Edmonds

Rick Edmonds
Member of the Louisiana Senate
from the 6th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 8, 2024
Preceded byBodi White
Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
from the 66th district
In office
January 11, 2016 – January 8, 2024
Preceded byDarrell Ourso
Succeeded byEmily Chenevert
Personal details
Born (1956-09-12) September 12, 1956 (age 68)
Shreveport, Louisiana
Political partyRepublican
ResidenceBaton Rouge, Louisiana
Alma materEast Texas Baptist University
OccupationClergyman

Richard Phillip Edmonds Jr. (born September 12, 1956), is an American pastor and politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Republican, he is a member of the Louisiana Senate from East Baton Rouge Parish. He previously served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and was among nine candidates for secretary of state in the 2018 special election to fill the seat vacated by Tom Schedler.[1]

Edmonds finished in fourth place in the race with 164,949 (11 percent). His House colleague, Julie Stokes of Jefferson Parish, finished in fifth place, also with 11 percent of the ballots cast.[2] In a runoff election in December, victory went to the Republican interim secretary Kyle Ardoin.

In the 2015 House election, Edmonds unseated a fellow Republican, the moderate Darrell Ourso.[3]

Edmonds is a former pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Shreveport and a former figure in the Louisiana Family Forum. He lives in Baton Rouge and is currently Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church of McComb.[4]

  1. ^ "Rep. Rick Edmonds joins Louisiana Secretary of State's race", New Orleans Times-Picayune, accessdate=October 10, 2018.
  2. ^ "Election Returns". Louisiana Secretary of State. November 6, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  3. ^ Rebekah Allen. "District 66 incumbent Darrell Ourso loses seat to Family Forum Vice President". The Baton Rouge Advocate.
  4. ^ "About". My Site. Retrieved May 27, 2022.