Four candidates, including two military attorneys, a veteran city court prosecutor and a grizzled defense lawyer, have qualified to run for a vacant district court judge’s seat in East Baton Rouge Parish
Elzie Alford Jr., Dele Adebamiji, Veronica “Vicky” Jones and Vernon Jones will square off for the seat on the 19th Judicial District Court bench in this fall’s municipal elections. They first round will be an Oct. 11 primary and if no candidate wins outright by eclipsing 50% of the votes that night, the two top vote getters advance to a Nov. 15 runoff.
All four candidates are Black and each of them are listed as Democrats. They’re vying for a seat vacated by former Chief Judge Wilson Fields, who was elected to the First Circuit Court of Appeal without opposition in January. Fields assumed his new position on the appellate court bench in March…