Harry T. Lemmon

Harry Thomas Lemmon (born December 11, 1930) is an American retired judge who was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from May 16, 1980 to May 16, 2001.

After briefly working as a chemist for American Oil Company, he served in the United States Army Chemical Corps in the Korean War.

He graduated from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 1963, and was in private practice from then until 1970.

[3] Lemmon became a judge of the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal in 1970, serving in that capacity until his election to the state supreme court in 1980 to serve out the unexpired term of Justice Frank W. Summers, following the latter's elevation to chief justice.

[1] Lemmon married Mary Ann Vial, an attorney who later became a United States District Judge, with whom he had six children.