Museum will induct nine into Hall

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• Published: Jul 13, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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ANGOLA — The Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation has selected nine people, two posthumously, for induction into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame on Aug. 1.

The Justice Hall of Fame was established in 2005, and events are planned at Angola and in Baton Rouge to honor the new inductees:

• Retired Army Brig. Gen. Sherian G. Cadoria, of Mansura, the first woman promoted to brigadier general from a non-traditional field, military police. She also served on the Louisiana Gaming Control Board.

• State Attorney General James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, of Tallulah, who was district attorney for Madison, East Carroll and Tensas parishes for 29 years until he took office as attorney general in January.

• The late Adrian G. Duplantier, of New Orleans, who died in August 2007 after serving 29 years as a U.S. District Court judge.

He also served as a state district judge and a state senator.

• Baton Rouge Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden, a former state senator.

• The late Elayn Hunt Eicher, who died in 1976 after serving as the first woman director of the state Department of Corrections.

• U.S. District Judge Frank J. Polozola, of Baton Rouge, who was appointed to the federal bench in 1980 after eight years of service as a federal magistrate.

Polozola for years monitored the state’s progress in complying with a consent decree regarding the operations of state prisons and jails.

• Sheriff Jack A. Stephens, of St. Bernard Parish, one of the state’s longest-serving sheriffs.

• Shreveport Police Chief Henry L. Whitehorn, who had a 25-year State Police career that included service as the superintendent of state police during Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s administration.

• U.S. Marshal William Rutledge “Rut” Whittington, of the U.S. Western District of Louisiana, who had a 26-year State Police career that included service as superintendent of State Police under former Gov. Mike Foster.

A public reception at the museum, near the penitentiary gates at Angola, will be 1:30 p.m. Aug. 1, followed by a 2 p.m. ribbon-cutting program to reveal the exhibit cases on the lives and accomplishments of the inductees.

A banquet and formal induction ceremonies are planned at 5 p.m. the same day at Boudreaux’s, 2647 Government St., in Baton Rouge. The $40 ticket price includes a catered meal and entertainment by the Gov. Jimmie Davis Band.

In addition to the program honoring the new inductees, 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Harmon Drew and his wife, Jean Talley Drew, will receive the “Chief Justice Edward Douglas White Judicial Excellence Award,” and state Probation and Parole Director Genie Powers of Baton Rouge will receive the first “Sheriff Harry Lee Memorial Law Enforcement Administrator Award of Excellence.”