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Robert William Kostelka, usually known as Bob Kostelka (born February 18, 1933), is a former district attorney, district judge, and circuit judge, and, currently, a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Monroe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Senator Robert W. "Bob" Kostelka - District 35 )〕 As state senator, he has represented Ouachita, Lincoln, and Jackson parishes in District 35 since 2004. He was unopposed for a second Senate term in the October 20, 2007, nonpartisan blanket primary. Kostelka retired from his circuit judgeship in 2003, when he reached the age of seventy, as required by an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution of 1974. Kostelka endorsed U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He told delegates at the state convention in Baton Rouge on February 16, 2008, that they should coalesce behind McCain, who trailed former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas in the February 9 Louisiana presidential primary. "Can you believe the United States is on the verge of electing Barack Hussein Obama or the wife of Monica's ex-boyfriend?", a reference to Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who had an affair with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. "It's enough to make you want to cry," the Monroe Republican continued. In 1992, Kostelka was nominated by then President George Herbert Walker Bush for the federal judgeship held by the retiring Richard M. Nixon appointee Tom Stagg of Shreveport in Caddo Parish. The nomination died with the election of Bill Clinton as president.〔 ==Early years, education, affiliations== The Shreveport-born〔 Kostelka graduated from C.E. Byrd High School, as have numerous political figures, including former U.S. Senators J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., of Louisiana and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia. After high school, Kostelka attended the Methodist-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport. He then transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1957, Kostelka obtained his law degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center. He later received training for prosecuting attorneys at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Society and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He is a member of the American Bar, Louisiana Bar, and the Appellate Judges' associations. Kostelka has long been a member of the Salvation Army, was the Monroe chairman for three terms, and was named "Citizen of the Year" in 1971. He has been a member of Rotary International in Monroe since 1968. He was worked in Boy Scouts of America and the YMCA. He is a member of the National Rifle Association, Ducks Unlimited, Bass Research Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, the Arthritis Foundation, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Kostelka has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Monroe since 1968. He is an elder and a former Sunday school teacher.〔 Kostelka has been twice married. His first wife, the former Bobbie Ann Morales (1936–1983) of Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish died of breast cancer. She was the mother of four of his children,〔 including R. Clifton Kostelka of San Antonio, who died of AIDS in 1995. Kostelka later married the former Felicia Marie Danna (born 1958) of West Monroe, also in Ouachita Parish. Bob and Felicia Kostelka have one child from their marriage.〔 Kostelka's hobbies include backpacking and hiking, bass and trout fishing, jogging and tennis, and outdoor and wildlife photography.〔 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「Robert Kostelka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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