Hoychick seeking City Court judgeship

Terry Hoychick is a candidate for Eunice City Court judge in the Nov. 4 primary election.
He has been an attorney in Eunice for 35 years and is a former partner of the late City Judge Nilas Young and incumbent retiring Judge Lynette Young Feucht.
Hoychick is a member in good standing of the Louisiana State Bar Association and has been the AV Preeminent rating through Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings.
He is listed among the Top Lawyers in Louisiana for 2013 by American Lawyer Media and is qualified to practice in all of the state courts in Louisiana; in the United States District Courts for the Western District of Louisiana, the Eastern District of Louisiana, the Eastern District of Arkansas, and the Southern District of Texas; the United States District Court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal; the United States Court of Federal Claims, Washington, D.C.; and the Coushatta Tribal Court of the Coushatta Indian Nation.
Hoychick was chosen by his local colleagues to lead the Eunice Attorneys Group as its Chairman in the Eunice Train Derailment litigation and was appointed by the federal court in that litigation as co-lead counsel and co-chairman for the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee.
The candidate taught Business Law classes at LSU Eunice from 1979-1989; served with the Moot Court advisory team for Eunice High School; served as Lt. Governor Division 7 of the La.-Miss.-W. Tenn. District of Kiwanis International from 1986-87; served as President of the Eunice Kiwanis Club in 1982.
Hoychick coached girls’ softball in the Eunice City Softball league for 11 years; coached boys’ baseball for two years; and has served pro bono as attorney for the Eunice Community Health Center, Inc. since 2009.
He is also currently and has been the Chairman of the Eunice Men’s Tennis League since 1994. He has served as Parliamentarian for the Louisiana Baptist Convention since 2006 and served on its Executive Board for two terms from 2006-2010.
Hoychick has served on the Board of Directors for Acadia Baptist Center for more than 30 years and as Vice-President since 1999. He was active as a member of First Baptist Church of Eunice from 1978 to 2010 and served as its Worship Leader from 2001 through 2010. In 2010, he returned to his home church in Basile and now serves as its Worship Leader.
He is married to Angie Forman Hoychick and they have four daughters, two sons-in-law, and five grandchildren; Lindsay and Donovan Arabie and sons, Gavin and Payton, of Alexandria; Ashley and Brandon Bourque and children, Jay Owen and Mady, of Eunice; Jeslyn and Alan Orgain and daughter, Ruby, of Eunice; and Kaitlin Hoychick of Baton Rouge. The couple is active in Lay Renewal Ministries; leading worship for revivals, retreats, and other ministry-related activities.