Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will be the featured speaker at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Fall 2018 Commencement ceremony.
The General Assembly will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, at the Cajundome.
In 2008, Edwards was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served for eight years until he became governor. He was House minority leader for three years.
Edwards earned a degree in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1988. He served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger on active duty and commanded a rifle company in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Edwards was sworn in as the state’s 56th governor in January 2016.