Patrick Connick [SEP] position held
Patrick Connick
John Patrick Connick (born March 1961), is an American attorney from Marrero, Louisiana, who has been since 2008 a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 84 in suburban Jefferson Parish.
The youngest of eight children born to Paul and Betty Connick, his elder brother is Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick. He is a nephew of former Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., and a first cousin of actor/singer Harry Connick Jr.
In 1979, Connick graduated from
law. In the case, Connick asked Sheila Myers to take a transfer to another position in his office. She had resisted, finally saying she would consider it after a meeting with Connick. Later the same day she distributed a questionnaire on issues of employee morale to her fellow prosecutors, after which Connick fired her.
Myers sued in federal court alleging Connick violated her First Amendment rights by firing her. He maintained she had been fired for refusing the transfer, but judge Jack Gordon of the Eastern District of Louisiana held