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4 unusual facts about B. Dexter Ryland


B. Dexter Ryland

Rebel Garnett Ryland (born April 22, 1953), an attorney in Columbia in Caldwell Parish died eighteen days before his older brother, Judge Ryland.

Earlier in the year, Ryland issued a controversial ruling regarding the selection by the board of trustees of the new president of Louisiana College, a Baptist-affiliated institution in Pineville.

Rebel Ryland had practiced law for twenty-five years, much of that time in the firm of the late Governor John McKeithen.

On March 18, 2005, Judge Ryland upheld the actions of the Louisiana College trustees when they elected the theologically conservative, Joe W. Aguillard, a former school superintendent in Beauregard Parish, as the new president to succeed the retiring Dr. Rory Lee.



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