Rick Nowlin

Rickey L. "Rick" Nowlin (born July 30, 1948) is a Natchitoches engineer and businessman and a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 23 (Natchitoches, DeSoto, and Red River parishes). Nowlin and the still-serving State Senator Gerald I. Long are the first Republicans since Reconstruction to represent Natchitoches Parish in the Louisiana legislature. The two took their oaths of office on January 14, 2008, the same day that Republican Governor Bobby Jindal was inaugurated. Nowlin was born to Louis M. Nowlin (November 16, 1918 – July 1, 2001) and Jocie R. Nowlin (May 21, 1921 – August 30, 2000). He, his brother, and two sisters were reared in Ferriday, a city in Concordia Parish near the...