Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr. served as the district attorney of the Parish of Orleans, which contains the city of New Orleans, from 1973 to 2003. His son, Harry Connick Jr., is a jazz singer, pianist, actor, and humanitarian. He and his son were part of the group that founded the Krewe of Orpheus, a superkrewe that participates in annual Mardi Gras parades.
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Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr. served as the district attorney of the Parish of Orleans, which contains the city of New Orleans, from 1973 to 2003. His son, Harry Connick Jr., is a jazz singer, pianist, actor, and humanitarian. Connick is the uncle of Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick and State Representative Patrick Connick. He and his son were part of the group that founded the Krewe of Orpheus, a superkrewe that participates in annual Mardi Gras parades. In 1989, Connick was indicted on racketeering charges for aiding and abetting a gambling operation by returning gambling records to an arrested gambler. In 1995, he was acquitted in July, 1990, while District Attorney while he took his office’s final report to the Assassination Records Review Board and at a public meeting in New Orleans.
He was the defendant and petitioner in Connick v. Myers, a free speech case in public employment law. In the case, he asked Sheila Myers to take a transfer to another position in his office. She had resisted, finally saying she would consider it after a meeting with Connick, after which Connick fired her. Later the same day she distributed a questionnaire on issues of employee morale to her fellow prosecutors. After the Fifth Circuit affirmed Gordon, the Supreme Court granted certiorari and narrowly reversed the ruling, holding that Myers’ questionnaire largely touched on matters internal to the office that were not of public concern and thus she was lawfully fired. In 1993, he and his daughter, Suzanna, and a son,Harry Jr., also had a daughter.
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