During his career, Mr. Carmody has represented all the railroads which serve Shreveport.
SHREVEPORT, LA, February 13, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Arthur Roderick Carmody Jr. has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Mr. Carmody received a Bachelor of Laws from Louisiana State University, after receiving undergraduate degrees from the New Mexico Military Institute and Fordham University, where he was designated a Distinguished Military Graduate and served as a First Lieutenant of artillery in the U.S. Army Reserves during the Korean War. Upon passing the Louisiana Bar, Mr. Carmody joined the law firm of Willis, Lewis, Wilkinson (now Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam), Shreveport's oldest law firm and has practiced there ever since.
During the 1960s and 70s, Mr. Carmody earned his reputation as a trial lawyer by successfully representing four of Shreveport's largest employers in alleged employment discrimination litigation. These included AEP SWEPCO, Sears, Roebuck & Co., the Kansas City Southern Railway, and Schumpert Medical Center. The EEOC was a party plaintiff in the SWEPCO suit and it is said to be the first electric utility case in the country in which the EEOC was defeated on all counts. Thereafter, Mr. Carmody was invited to go to Washington, D.C. at the EEOC's expense to talk on litigating against that governmental entity. With his client's permission, Mr. Carmody agreed and did.
During his career, Mr. Carmody has represented all the railroads which serve Shreveport, including the KCS, L&A, UP, T&P, Missouri Pacific, Illinois Central, Mid-South, and has tried over 600 railroad cases throughout Louisiana and elsewhere. He also served as a member of the Louisiana Railroad Association and its executive committee from 1970 to 2002.
During this same period, Mr. Carmody was actively involved in preserving Catholic secondary education in the Shreveport area. For in 1969, the Jesuit order that had owned and controlled St. John's High School since 1901 announced that it would be closed in the following year due to financial concerns and manpower shortages. Mr. Carmody led a small group of Catholic men who negotiated and worked with the Jesuit Order to turn the school over to a lay board of trustees which assumed all of the obligations of the existing school. In so doing, he devised and negotiated with the Jesuits for what is called the "Shreveport Plan" which "saved the school from closure", as attested in the Alumni Achievement Award by Fordham University given in 1995. Mr. Carmody was the second chairman of the board of trustees and served as a board member for many years. The school is now named Loyola College Prep, is coed and highly successful.
In 1993, Mr. Carmody was elected to the Hall of Honor for the new school, and in 1994, was elected into the New Mexico Military Institute Hall of Fame for substantially the same reasons.
In 1953, Mr. Carmody was appointed a member of the Metropolitan Shreveport Zoning Board of Appeals and served as chairman for over ten years during the administration of four different mayors. During the same period, he also served as chairman and board member of the Loyola Foundation. He also has served on the board of directors of the Shreveport Bridge and Terminal Company, the Kansas City Southern Transportation Company, and Red River Public Radio. Active in historical and military matters, Mr. Carmody has been published in the Northwest Louisiana Historical Journal, the U.S. Cavalry Journal, the Sally Port Magazine, and the Smoky Hills Railroad Journal. He is a member of the Kansas City Southern Historical Society, the Missouri Pacific Historical Society, Northwest Louisiana Historical Society, U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society, Louisiana Supreme Court Historical Society, Southern Pacific Historical Society, Society of Civil War Historians, and writes a monthly column for the Shreveport Bar Review published by the Shreveport Bar Association, which has included timely articles on Huey Long - Shreveport Lawyer, the Impeachment of Huey Long, the Acts of the Confederate Legislature in Shreveport, 1862-1865, Judge Roy Bean and Lilly Langtry - the Law West of the Pecos, and more. He has also written on the 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers, the History of Railroad Passenger Service in Shreveport and on the Battle of Mansfield, 1864.
Mr. Carmody has served as the president of the Shreveport Bar Association and as a member of the governor's ad hoc committee to write the draft of the laws regulating lignite mining and development in Louisiana, and also a member of the special committee appointed by the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1968 to review issues of lawyer and judicial conduct.
In 1995, Mr. Carmody was inducted as a member of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta (Federal Association), St. Patrick's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He also is the past president of the Galvez Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, a member of the military order of the Stars and Bars, the Tarshar Society, and the Scribes Society. In 1978, he was inducted in New York City into the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers.
Always involved in athletic affairs, Mr. Carmody was an officer and director of the Shreveport Braves Baseball Club (Texas League) in the late 1950s, a general partner in the Shreveport Steamer organization in the World Football League in the 1970s and president of the Touchdown Club of Shreveport.
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