Retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey P. Victory Passes Away at Age 78 - Press Release

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<div align="left" style="text-align:center;"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#428bca;"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td bgcolor="#428bca" height="21" valign="middle" width="100%"><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">2024 Press Releases</span></strong> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="16%" style="width:1112px;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table></div><table style="width:100%;text-align:center;"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="82" style="text-align:left;width:71px;">CONTACT:&nbsp;</td><td width="253" style="text-align:left;width:1039px;">Trina S. Vincent<br />504-310-2590 </td></tr></tbody></table><div align="left" style="text-align:center;"><table style="width:100%;border-spacing:3px;background-color:#f7ebc6;"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="38%" style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#212073;text-transform:uppercase;"><strong>September 30, 2024</strong></span> </td><td width="62%"><p align="right"><span style="color:#212073;"><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</strong></span> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong></strong>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><strong>RETIRED LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JEFFREY P. VICTORY 
PASSES AWAY AT AGE 78</strong></p><p><strong>New Orleans, LA/Shreveport, LA</strong> &ndash; The Honorable Justice Jeffrey P. Victory, retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice, passed away on Thursday, September 26, 2024, in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was 78 years old.</p><p>Justice Victory was elected to serve as an Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for a 10-year term beginning on January 1, 1995, and subsequently re-elected to a second 10-year term which began in 2005. Justice Victory retired from the Louisiana Supreme Court on December 31, 2014 after serving 20 years as an Associate Justice for the Court&rsquo;s Second Supreme Court District. As a Justice, he was a charter member of the Louisiana Sentencing Commission and served as a director and board chair of the Louisiana Judicial College.  He served on the Supreme Court&rsquo;s Internal Audit Committee and was a regular lecturer on ethics issues.  On Oct. 21, 2014, Justice Victory received the 2014 U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform&rsquo;s Judicial Leadership Achievement Award, which recognizes individuals and organizations for outstanding work contributing to reform of the United States civil justice system.</p><p>&ldquo;I am immensely saddened by the passing of my friend, mentor, and colleague Justice Jeffrey Victory.  My thoughts and prayers are with him; his lovely wife, Nancy, who is also a dear friend; and his family,&rdquo; said Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice John L. Weimer.  &ldquo;It is often said that the first quality of a good jurist is that one has to be a good person.  Jeff was certainly a good person.  Jeff and I served together on the Supreme Court for 14 years.  Although we did not always agree on each and every opinion, we always had respect for one another and for each other&rsquo;s point of view.  We never allowed our divergent views, which occasionally were polar opposite, or our disagreements on how to apply the law, to become disagreeable.  Besides being an excellent jurist, Jeff was multitalented.  There was nothing mechanical that he would not disassemble to see how it worked.  He always had the ability to put back together whatever he had disassembled.  He was a man of many interests, including our shared passion for riding motorcycles.  He rode faster than I.  Jeff was a person devoted to his faith and his family.  He will live on in the opinions, concurrences, and dissents that he authored and in the memory of his family members and friends.&rdquo;</p><p>Justice Victory was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on January 29, 1946, and was the son of Thomas Edward and Esther Horton Victory. He graduated from Byrd High School in 1963 as a member of the National Honor Society. He entered Centenary College on an athletic scholarship and graduated in 1967 with a B.A. degree in History and Government. In the Fall of 1967, he entered Tulane University School of Law on a Regional Scholarship, where he served on the Law Review. While in law school, he joined the Special Forces, Airborne, Louisiana National Guard. After finishing Tulane Law School in 1971, he practiced with the prestigious law firm of Tucker, Martin, Holder, Jeter, Jackson and Victory in Shreveport, Louisiana.</p><p>Justice Victory began his judicial career in 1981 when he was elected to the First Judicial District Court, and in 1990, he was elected to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal for a term beginning January 1, 1991. He served there until he was elected as an Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for a term beginning on January 1, 1995.</p><p>He was a member of the National Lawyers Association and the American, Louisiana State, and Shreveport Bar Associations, and was inducted into the C.E. Byrd High School Hall of Fame and the Centenary College Hall of Fame.</p><p>Justice Victory is survived by his wife Dr. Nancy Clark Victory; and children Paul Bradford Victory and wife Michelle, and their daughters Madilynn and Elizabeth; William Peter Victory; Judge Christopher Thomas Victory; and daughter Mary Kathryn Victory, and her sons Jameson Walters and Prescott Walters.</p><p>In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Broadmoor Baptist Church, Care Pregnancy Center, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Louisiana Family Forum.</p><p><em><strong>Louisiana Supreme Court Mission:</strong> To preserve the integrity of the judiciary, to build and maintain public trust, to provide effective and efficient administration of justice in the Supreme Court, to ensure proper administration and performance of all courts under Supreme Court authority, and to ensure the highest professional conduct, integrity, and competence of the bench and bar.</em></p><p><strong>For more information visit <a href="/">lasc.org</a> or contact Louisiana Supreme Court Public Information Specialist/Coordinator Trina S. Vincent at <a href="mailto:tvincent@lasc.org">tvincent@lasc.org</a> or (504) 310-2590.</strong> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>-30-</strong></p><p><link rel="stylesheet" href="/press_room/press_releases/2024/images/2024-01_picgrid.css" /></p><div class="picgrid"><div><p><img src="/press_room/press_releases/2024/images/2024-12_Justice_Jeffrey_Victory.jpg" alt="Retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Victory" /><br /><span class="caption">Retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Victory</span></p></div></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
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