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James Donald Garvey, Jr., known as Jim Garvey (March 1964 - 16 August 2010),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Garvey, March 1964 )〕 is a lawyer and Certified Public Accountant from Metairie in suburban Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the eleven-person (eight elected, three appointed) Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, which sets and monitors education policy. Since 2008, he has represents District 1, which encompasses populous Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Tammany parishes.〔 ==Background== Garvey is descended from a prominent Roman Catholic family in his native New Orleans, a grandson of Thomas Joseph Garvey and the former Loretta Kuntz.〔 His father, James Garvey, Sr. (born December 1932), and his uncle, Lawrence "Larry" Garvey (1936-2010), established the former Radiofone paging company, based in Metairie, into a regional wireless telecommunications operation. The Garvey brothers launched the company in 1958 with the conversion of their parents' physician-calling business. In 1984, they demonstrated their cellular telephone service at the New Orleans World's Fair. From 1992 to 2000, early in his legal career, Garvey Jr., was counsel for Radiofone. In 2000, however, the Garvey brothers sold Radiofone for $400 million to SBC Communications. It was then sold again to the former Alltel company, based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Lawrence Garvey was heavily involved in the right to life movement in New Orleans.〔 Another Garvey uncle, Richard Joseph Garvey, Sr. (1926-2015), born in Pierce City, Missouri, moved to New Orleans at the age of three. He was a Loyola graduate and from 1966 to 1996 the Division C judge of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court. In 1982, James Garvey, Jr., graduated from the Catholic-affiliated Jesuit High School in New Orleans. In 1987, he received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Loyola University New Orleans. In 1991, Garvey obtained a Master of Business Administration from Loyola and a Juris Doctorate that same year from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.〔 Admitted to the bar in 1992, Garvey has been affiliated since 2006 with the Metairie office of the firm, Hailey McNamara, with specialization in product liability, commercial transportation, personal property litigation, and insurance law. He handled numerous cases stemming from Hurricane Katrina.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James D. Garvey, Jr. )〕 One of his law partners is his cousin, Richard J. Garvey, Jr. (born May 1958).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard J. Garvey, Jr. )〕 Garvey is a board member for the New Orleans chapter of Teach For America, a nonprofit organization which recruits college graduates to teach for at least two years in lower-income American communities. He also sits on the boards of the Jefferson Parish Education Foundation and the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission. He has been active with the Metropolitan Battered Women's Program and served as well on the Governor's Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Board. Garvey is a member of Phi Delta Phi, the international legal honor society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James D. Garvey, Jr. )〕 Garvey and his wife, Katharine Claire Garvey (born September 1969),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Katharine Garvey, September 1969 )〕 have four children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Garvey (Louisiana politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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