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Nauman Steele Scott, II (June 15, 1916 - September 19, 2001), was a Republican-appointed federal judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, who served from 1970 until his death in 2001. In 1980, he ordered cross-parish busing guidelines to foster racial balance in Rapides Parish public schools. Because of his active fight against lingering remnants of segregation, Judge Scott has often been compared to two other Republican federal judges in similar circumstances, John Minor Wisdom of New Orleans and Frank Minis Johnson, of Montgomery, Alabama, the latter a rival of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Prior to his judicial appointment, Scott had been an attorney in private practice in Alexandria. ==Early years and legal practice== Scott was born into to a family of lawyers in New Roads in Pointe Coupee Parish to Nauman Steele Scott, I, and the former Sidonie Provosty. His maternal grandfather, Albin Provosty, had been a district attorney and from 1912 to 1920 a state senator. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana Senate, 1880-Present: Pointe Coupee Parish )〕 His great-uncle, Olivier Provosty, was Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1920 to 1922. Scott was reared in Alexandria, where his father was killed in a tragic gunshot accident when Nauman was only eleven years of age. Scott, Sr., left behind five young children. For a time, Nauman was a childhood playmate of Louisiana's future Republican national committeewoman, Virginia deGravelles, who served in the party post from 1964 to 1968. As per his late father's wishes, Scott was sent to boarding school and graduated from the elite Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, in 1934 and from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1938. In 1941, he received his LL.B. degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. He established his practice in Alexandria from 1941-1942. On January 8, 1942, he married the former Blanche Hammond (1920–1985). From 1942-1946, he was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war, he resumed his law practice, Provosty, Sadler, and Scott, from 1946 to 1970, when he joined the court. On December 5, 1959, Scott was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for an at-large seat from Rapides Parish on the Louisiana House of Representatives.〔''The Shreveport Times'', December 6, 1959, p. 1〕 Scott was president of the Alexandria Bar Association from 1965 to 1966. On November 8, 1966, he ran for the Rapides Parish School Board. Though Scott was the top Republican vote-getter, he lost the race because the weakest Democrat on the ballot still outpolled him by some 3,000 votes. Democrats won all six of the at-large school board seats contested that year. 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「Nauman Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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