Personal Life
Eric LaFleur is the son of Dwight LaFleur, a lifelong resident of Ville Platte, a retired merchant and former Air Force fighter pilot. His mother, Flo Brown LaFleur, was raised on a rice farm in Chataignier, Louisiana, and worked as a registered nurse. Eric LaFleur is the fourth of five children in the LaFleur family. His wife, the former Julie D. Morein, was born and raised just outside of the city limits of Ville Platte, Louisiana. Her father is a farmer and her mother a teacher. She graduated from L.S.U. magna cum laude and earned her Master’s Degree from the University of South Alabama. She is employed as a Physician’s Assistant in the Intensive Care Unit at Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana. The couple has three children, Atticus Yves La Fleur born in 2008, Amélie Estelle La Fleur born in 2010, and Alistair Wallace La Fleur born in 2011.
He lives in Ville Platte with his wife, Julie Morein LaFleur, a physician's assistant at the Intensive Care Unit at St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria. LaFleur is a partner in the law firm of Mahtook & LaFleur. The firm consists of ten attorneys with offices in Ville Platte, Opelousas, Lafayette, and Houston, Texas. He graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, having earned a bachelor of arts in French, economics, and history. He earned his law degree from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1991. His legal practice focuses primarily on transactional work: residential, commercial and public finance. He is a Red Book listed bond attorney. LaFleur also serves as the President and Chief Financial Officer for a medium sized health care company which employs over 100 people and provides primary and ancillary health care services to long term care and long term acute care patients. Before entering private practice, LaFleur served as a felony prosecutor under District Attorney Harry Connick in New Orleans and for the Louisiana Department of Justice under Richard Ieyoub. During his years as prosecutor, LaFleur handled in excess of 1,000 felony cases including 50 plus jury trials.
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