Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick
# Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick

Edith Aurelia Killgore Kirkpatrick (November 14, 1918 – April 15, 2014) was an American music educator and politician who served on the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education from 1977 to 1989.

## Biography

Born in Lisbon, Louisiana, she studied at Louisiana College (where she graduated as the Class of 1938 Valedictorian and with a Bachelor of Arts), Juilliard School, and Louisiana State University and was a music teacher in McNeese State University and was a Baptist choir director.

She was appointed to the newly-created Louisiana Board of Regents by Governor Edwin Washington Edwards and served until 1990.

She had four children with her husband, state representative Claude Kirkpatrick. Their daughter-in-law, Sandra Futrell, is a daughter of Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana P. Elmo Futrell, Jr. She published a songbook, Louisiana Let's Sing, during her husband's 1963 gubernatorial campaign.

Her alma mater gave Kirkpatrick a Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate, and along with LSU offers a endowed music professorship named after her.

She died on April 18, 2014.

