Four U.S. Presidents placed Revius Ortique on federal commissions and boards. One U.S. President named him an Alternate Representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations. These posts required U.S. Senate approval.
Ortique sits at the head of the table, his back to the camera.
President Johnson appointed him to the Federal Hospital Council in 1966.
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President Ford Nominated him to a term on the first term on Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation.
On July 14, 1975, the first Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, including Revius Ortique Jr., was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.
President Carter reappointed him to another term on Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation.
He served until December 31, 1981, when President Reagan replaced the board with recess appointments.
The President met with Representatives of the National Bar Association. For a list of attendees, see APPENDIX "B".
Following the shootings at Kent State, President Nixon placed Ortique on his newly created President’s Commission on Campus Unrest.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Oslo, Norway)
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release November 2, 1999
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES REVIUS ORTIQUE
AS U.S. ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIVE TO THE
FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS
The President today announced his intent to nominate Revius Ortique to serve as United States Alternate Representative to the Fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Mr. Revius Ortique, of New Orleans, Louisiana, retired as a Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1994. A distinguished member of the judicial community, Justice Ortique also was appointed and then elected as a Member of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. He served in that capacity from 1978 until his appointment to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1992. Prior to entering the judiciary, Justice Ortique participated as Co-Counsel on many landmark civil rights cases. Justice Ortique has served on several Boards and Commissions, being chosen by four U.S. Presidents to serve in various capacities. He has been presented with many honors including the Martin Luther King Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Consortium of Loyola, Tulane and Xavier Universities.
Mr. Ortique received his A.B. from Dillard University of New Orleans in 1947, his M.A. from the University of Indiana in 1949 and his J.D. from Southern University Law Center in 1956.
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