Rick Gallot facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Richard J. Gallot, Jr.
Gallot in 2016
President of University of Louisiana System
Incumbent
Assumed office 2024
10th President of Grambling State University
In office 2016–2024
Preceded by	Willie Larkin
Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 29th district
In office January 9, 2012 – January 2016
Preceded by	Joe McPherson
Succeeded by	Jay Luneau
Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 11th district
In office 2000–2012
Preceded by	Pinkie C. Wilkerson
Succeeded by	Patrick Jefferson
Personal details
Born	April 1966 Ruston, Lincoln Parish Louisianan, USA
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Christy Cox Gallot
Children	Four children
Residences	Grambling, Louisiana
Alma mater	Grambling State University Southern University Law Center
Profession	Attorney

Richard Joseph Gallot Jr., known as Rick Gallot (born April 1966) was named president of the University of Louisiana System in October 2023 after serving nearly nine years as president of Grambling State Also he was a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 29. In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011, Gallot received 12,992 votes (50.3 percent).

Gallot, an African American born in Ruston, graduated from the historically black Grambling State University in Grambling and the Southern University Law Center of Baton Rouge. He is a member of Grambling's Gamma Psi chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and an inductee of the Southern Law Hall of Fame. In 2012, he succeeded the term-limited white Democratic Senator Joe McPherson.

Despite a generally liberal voting record, in 2014 Gallot was one of only two Democrats in the State Senate to vote against reforming Louisiana's payday lending laws, having sided with the payday lending industry against a grassroots campaign that supported reform. Gallot did not seek reelection in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015.

In April 2016, Gallot began serving on the Board of Directors of Cleco Corporation, an electric utility company based in Pineville, Louisiana.

Gallot was selected as president of Grambling State University and to begin his tenure, donated $20,000 to the institution noting, "I wouldn't ask anyone to do what I wouldn't do myself."

In October 2023, Gallot was named president of the University of Louisiana System.