Collection:LPB

Genre: Interview

Place Covered: Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2022-02-25

Duration: 00:27:05

Subjects: Landry, Terry | Louisiana. Office of State Police | State legislators | Law Enforcement

Contributors:

• Denison, John Host
• White, Avery Producer
• Crews, Keith Photographer
• Landry, Terry Interviewee

This episode of the series “Louisiana Legends” from February 25, 2022, features John Denison’s interview with Terry Landry. Landry, a native of New Iberia and a Vietnam War veteran, served as the first African American superintendent of the Louisiana State Police and as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2012-2020. He discusses: his childhood; the values instilled in him by his parents; his work on reducing the state’s high incarceration rate; his religious faith; becoming the first African American superintendent of the Louisiana State Police; founding the Louisiana State Police Foundation with his friend Bill Dore; the importance of the art of compromise; his late wife; his advice for the next generation of law enforcement officers; and his next chapter.