Loyola College of Law to honor Moon Landrieu

    The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law will celebrate its 100-year anniversary by honoring one of its most important and influential graduates, former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu ’52, J.D. ’54.
    Landrieu will receive the St. Ives Award, the law school’s highest honor, at a luncheon Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans.
    The St. Ives Award is presented annually to alumni who have volunteered services to the College of Law or the university and maintained the highest standards of the legal profession.
    Landrieu was instrumental in the fight to desegregate city government and public facilities in the 1970s. Following his graduation from the College of Law, Landrieu served in the U.S. Army and practiced law until 1970, when he was elected mayor of New Orleans.
    Since 1960, he has served as a Louisiana state legislator; councilman at large for the city of New Orleans; secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal for Louisiana.
    To attend the luncheon, register online at law.loyno.edu or call 861-5741. Other events this year include a Mardi Law Centennial Celebration party Feb. 21; the Law Alumni Association’s Centennial Cocktail Reception during the Annual Louisiana State Bar Convention in Sandestin, Fla., June 3; and a reunion weekend Oct. 10-12.