ANGOLA -- The Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum is growing.

The Justice Hall of Fame, created in 2005 to honor the men and women who have served their community, state and nation in the professions of law enforcement, the judiciary and related fields, will add new members July 28.

The museum is located just outside the front gate of the Angola prison.

A panel chosen by the Museum Foundation's board of directors selected this year's inductees, who will join 20 others inducted in 2005 and 2006.

The new honorees are:

--Brig. Gen. Hunt Downer of Houma, a lawyer with the Louisiana National Guard, head of the Department of Veterans Affairs and a former seven-term member of the state House of Representatives. While in the Legislature, he served as speaker of the House and speaker pro-tem.

--Judge Bob Downing of Baton Rouge, a former state district judge and currently a judge for the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal who is active in religious and educational programs in Louisiana prisons. He also is a frequent speaker on the subject of crime and crime prevention.

--Cheney C. Joseph Jr. of Baton Rouge, former assistant district attorney and district attorney, former U.S. attorney, judge pro-tem for the 16th and 40th Judicial Districts and executive counsel to Gov. Mike Foster. He is an LSU law professor and has served as vice chancellor for academic affairs at LSU's Paul M. Hebert Law Center since 2000.

--Michael A. Ranatza of St. Francisville, former Harahan police chief, at age 24 the youngest police chief ever elected in Louisiana. He has served as executive director of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement for 23 years with a reputation for bringing parties of similar interests together to achieve common goals, the foundation said.

--Judge Jerome M. Winsberg of New Orleans, a judge of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court from 1972 through 1995 and former faculty member of the University of New Orleans. He continues to accept Supreme Court ad hoc judge appointments.

--Sheriff Randy Maxwell of Concordia Parish, a former state trooper with 19 years experience and his parish's sheriff since 1990. He serves on numerous boards and committees involved in law enforcement, corrections and crime prevention.

--Debra K. Mack, a New Orleans native with a Loyola University law degree who now serves as special-agent-in-charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Mobile, Ala., field office, supervising more than 100 agents and support personnel.

--Warren A. Perrin, a lawyer with offices in Erath and Lafayette and one of the leading activists for the preservation of Acadian culture in Louisiana. Founder and director of the Acadian Museum in Erath, he serves as president of the Council for the Development in French in Louisiana. His efforts led Queen Elizabeth II to issue a proclamation apologizing for Great Britain's 1755 expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia.

--The Knoll family of Avoyelles Parish. Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jeanette Theriot Knoll, the first woman ever elected as a state appellate judge. She served on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal from 1982 and took her seat on the state's high court on Jan. 1, 1997.

Her husband, Jerold Edward "Eddie" Knoll, was, at 29, the youngest man elected district attorney in Louisiana, serving from 1972 to 2003.

The Knolls' five sons include three who are lawyers practicing with their father in Marksville.

Elected posthumously was Margaret "Maggie" Richardson Dixon, managing editor of the Morning Advocate from 1949 to 1970 and a crusader for prison reform, assistance to the mentally ill and organized labor. The foundation said she was considered the "conscience of Angola," and the Department of Corrections named its first satellite prison -- Dixon Correctional Institute -- for her.

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