Mr. Stanford O. Bardwell, Jr.

Position on the EBRP Library Board of Control: Member

Years of Service: Appointed May 2007

Education: Juris Doctorate, Louisiana State University Law Center, 1965; Bachelor of Science, Louisiana State University, 1962

Profession: Attorney

Community Activities:

• Glenwood Civic Association, President (1971-1973)
• The Federation of Greater B.R. Civic Associations, Representative to organizational meeting
• EBR Republican Executive Committee, Chairman (1972-1976, 1988-1996)
• Board of Directors, Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge, Member (1974-1980)
• Governor’s Criminal Justice Commission, Member (1980-1982)
• Greater Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, Member (1989-2002) Board of Directors (1997-2002); Government Affairs Committee
• Rotary Club of Baton Rouge, Member, (1994-date)
• First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge, Adult Sunday School teacher (1996-date)

Quotes "The intrinsic worth of a library is as a limitless source of information both on matters of real life application as well as for mere entertainment. The first is most ably illustrated by a former Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Louis D. Brandeis, who said, ‘I have thought I would not get as much from books as I would from tackling concrete problems. However, I have generally run up against a problem, have painfully tried to think it out, with a measure of success, and have then read a book and found to my surprise that some other chap was before me.’”