Cynthia Willard-Lewis
| Cynthia W. Willard-Lewis | |
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| Louisiana State Senator for District 2 (Orleans Parish) |
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In office 2010–2012 |
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| Preceded by | Ann Duplessis |
| Succeeded by | Troy E. Brown |
| Louisiana State Representative for District 100 (Orleans Parish) |
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In office 1993–2000 |
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| Preceded by | David Armstrong |
| Succeeded by | Pat Swilling |
| New Orleans City Council member for District E | |
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In office 2000–2010 |
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| Preceded by | Lula Harris Breaux (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Jon Johnson |
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Cynthia W. Willard 1952 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Parents | Elliott and Jane Willard |
| Residence | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Xavier University of Louisiana |
| Occupation | Public relations consultant |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Cynthia W. Willard-Lewis (born 1952) is a Democrat from her native New Orleans, Louisiana, who served briefly in the Louisiana State Senate and for longer periods in the Louisiana House of Representatives and on the New Orleans City Council.
She was elected from Senate District 2 in a special election held on October 2, 2010, to replace Ann Duplesis, who resigned to take a position in the administration of Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Displaced by redistricting, Willard-Lewis ran in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011, for the District 3 seat in the state Senate. She was instead defeated by another Democrat, the incumbent senator, Jean-Paul Morrell, who polled 11,280 votes (53.3 percent) to Willard-Lewis' 9,911 votes (46.8 percent).
Willard-Lewis also represented District 100 in the Louisiana House from 1993 to 2000, when she was elected to the New Orleans City Council. She left the council in 2010 under term limits. She was succeeded in the House by Pat Swilling, a former National Football League linebacker.
In 2006, Willard-Lewis, together with then Mayor Ray Nagin supported the opponents of a landfill project led by then-future U.S. Representative Republican Joseph Cao of Louisiana's 2nd congressional district. In 2009, Willard-Lewis was back in the news for telling fellow Councilwoman Stacy Head to "sit down with your prop" when Head was displaying a poster critical of the Orleans Parish garbage-collection fees—a discussion which preceded the New Orleans e-mail controversy.
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