He graduated in 1968 from Catholic High School in New Iberia, where he was a three-year letterman in football and an all-state defensive end/fullback.

He received his Juris Doctor in 1975 from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

[1] On April 11, 1991, Judge Haik was nominated to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana by President George H. W. Bush to the seat vacated by John Malcolm Duhé Jr.

This was the second time that Haik assumed a bench vacated by Judge Duhé.

Instead Duhé was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.