Harry Thomas Lemmon (born December 11, 1930) was a justice of the

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from May 16, 1980 to May 16, 2001. Born in

Morgan City, Louisiana Morgan City is a small city in St. Mary and lower St. Martin parishes in the U.S. State of Louisiana. The population was 12,404 at the 2010 census. Known for being “right in the middle of everywhere”, Morgan City is located 68 miles (109&nb ...

,"Harry Lemmon will observe anniversary with retirement", ''The Morgan City Daily Review'' (March 30, 2001), p. 1, 12. Lemmon graduated from

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in 1948, and from the

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in 1952. After briefly working as a chemist for American Oil Company, he served in the

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Chemical Corps in the

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. He graduated from

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in 1963, and was in private practice from then until 1970. Lemmon became a judge of the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal in 1970, serving in that capacity until his election to the state supreme court in 1980 to serve out the unexpired term of Justice Frank W. Summers, following the latter's elevation to chief justice. Lemmon declined to run for another full term on the court because he would be forced to retire upon meeting the mandatory retirement age just a few years into such a new term. In addition to his judicial service, Lemmon co-authored the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise on Civil Procedure. Lemmon married Mary Ann Vial, an attorney who later became a United States District Judge, with whom he had six children.

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