Judge William J. Fleniken, Caddo and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana
First Judicial District
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From "Biographies of Louisiana Judges" edited by J.
Cleveland Fruge'
for the Louisiana District Judges Association, publishers.
1971.
Reproduction permitted without written permission provided credit
line is retained. Copyright, 1971, J. Cleveland Fruge'.
Judge William J. Fleniken, Division "A", First Judicial District
Court, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was elected November 14, 1961, to fill
the unexpired term of Judge Robert J. O'Neal, and was reelected in 1966
without opposition.
Born in Benson, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, on September 8, 1908,
Judge Fleniken is the son of the late Joseph Jackson Fleniken and Julia
Smith Fleniken, whose grandparents settled in DeSoto Parish prior to the
Civil War.
Judge Fleniken moved to Shreveport, with his family, while still a
child, attended public schools, graduating from Byrd High School and
later attended Centenary College. Admitted to the practice of law in
1936, Judge Fleniken was associated with the KCS-L&A Railway in the
Legal
Department until 1944, when resigned to enter the private practice of
law.
In 1945 Judge Fleniken was appointed Assistant United States
Attorney
for the Western District of Louisiana, and was appointed United States
Attorney in 1950 and served until August 1953, when he resigned to again
enter the private practice of law with State Representative Algie D.
Brown,
under the firm name of Brown & Fleniken.
On May 5, 1935, Judge Fleniken was married to Kathryn Connerton,
and
they have one son, William J. Fleniken, Jr., a graduate of Centenary
College
and the University of Houston Law School, now practicing in Fort Worth,
Tx.
Judge Fleniken is a graduate of the National College of State Trial
Judges, having attended the first session held at the University of
Colorado
Law School at Boulder, Colorado in 1964, on a fellowship grant from the
Kellogg Foundation.
He is a member of the National Conference of State Trial Judges;
the
Louisiana District Judges Association and the American Judicature
Society.
He is also a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American
Bar Association and the Shreveport Bar Association.
Judge Fleniken is a member of the First Baptist Church, serving on
the
Board of Deacons; member of Caddo Lodge No. 179 F&AM, K.C.C.H. Scottish
Rite
Bodies, El Karubah Shrine Temple, Royal Order of Jesters and Shreveport
High
Twelve Club.
Judge Fleniken is also a member of the Board of Governors of the
Shrine
Hospital for Crippled Children; a member of the Advisory Boards of the
Sal-
vation Army, Caddo Foundation for Exceptional Children; Young Mens
Christian
Association, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Boy's Club,
Shreveport
Optimist Club and the Elks Club.
Judge Fleniken lists his hobbies as fishing, hunting and golf.
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