Retired 9th JDC Judge Alfred A. Mansour, 85, died Thursday, May 20, 2010. A combat infantry veteran of World War II, Mansour graduated from Loyola Law School in 1951 and began the full-time practice of law that same year. He was elected to the bench of the 9th JDC in 1978 and served there from 1979 until his retirement in 1995. He served as president of the Alexandria Bar Association in 1970 and was vice chairman of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He later served as president of the Louisiana District Judges’ Association and completed the Civil Mediation Course at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. In 1994, he was presented with the LSBA’s Distinguished Jurist Award.