Joe Raymond Peace

Who is Joe Raymond Peace?

Joseph Raymond Peace, Jr., is the former Louisiana Tech University head football coach of eight seasons from 1988 to 1995. He ushered the Bulldogs football program into NCAA Division I-A football in 1989.

Peace is an alumnus of Louisiana Tech. Prior to becoming the Tech head coach in 1988, he had coached for the Northwestern State University Demons in Natchitoches.

His father, Joe Peace, Sr., a native of Magnolia, Arkansas, was a successful high school football coach from 1948–1975 at Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish. He used the since discarded Notre Dame Box. Peace, Jr., graduated from Sicily Island High School and played football under his father. Peace's mother, the former Mary Sue Pipes, a native of Jena in La Salle Parish and a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, taught at Sicily Island High School, where her husband was head coach. An active civic figure, Mrs. Peace in 2001 lost a race for Sicily Island alderman.

Peace, Jr., was first married to the former Pamela Franks, by whom he has two children, Michele Peace Gulotta of Plaquemine and Jay Raymond Peace of North Salt Lake, Utah. His second wife is the former Carolyn Ferguson, formerly of Shreveport, a sister of former Buffalo Bills player Joe Ferguson. Their two sons are Ray J. Peace of Bossier City and Robert Joseph Peace.