Heulette Fontenot

Who is Heulette Fontenot?

Heulette Clovance Fontenot, Jr., known as Clo Fontenot, is a Livingston, Louisiana, businessman who served as a Republican member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature between 1996 and 2008. He was a one-term member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2000 and served two terms thereafter in the State Senate from 2000 to 2008. He did not seek a third consecutive term in Senate District 13, which encompasses his own Livingston Parish and a portion of populous East Baton Rouge Parish. Senator Fontenot was the author of the 2006 Pet Evaucation Act, passed amid shocking reports of numerous animals having been abandoned during the aftermath of deadly Hurricane Katrina.