Randy Roach

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Randy Roach

|image = Randy Roach - Coastal Challenges.jpg

|caption = Roach in 2007

|birth_name = Randall Edmund Roach

|birth_place = Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.

|state_house = Louisiana

|district = 36th

|term_start = 1988

|term_end = 1996

|preceded = Conway LeBleu

|succeeded = Dan Flavin

|party = Democratic

|office1 = Mayor of Lake Charles, Louisiana

|term_start1 = April 2000

|term_end1 = June 30, 2017

|predecessor1 = Rodney Geyem

|successor1 = Nicholas E. Hunter

|alma_mater = Louisiana State University

|spouse = Nancy Roach{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityoflakecharles.com/department/division.php?structureid=26|title=About the Mayor|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018160022/http://www.cityoflakecharles.com/department/division.php?structureid=26|archive-date=October 18, 2015|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}

|children = 2

}}

Randall Edmund Roach is an American politician.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/213177647/|title=Forced heirship fight is not over yet|work=The Times|location=Shreveport, Louisiana|date=May 30, 1990|access-date=April 16, 2022|page=12|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He served as a Democratic member for the 36th district of the Louisiana House of Representatives.{{Cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov:80/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembers1812_2008.pdf|title=Membership In The Louisiana House Of Representatives 1812 - 2012|work=David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331104823/http://house.louisiana.gov:80/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembers1812_2008.pdf|archive-date=March 31, 2010|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}} He was also the mayor of Lake Charles, Louisiana from 2000 to 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kplctv.com/story/10133935/mayor-randy-roach-ready-to-serve-the-city-again/|title=Mayor Randy Roach ready to serve the city again|work=KPLC|first=Charlie|last=Bartlett|date=April 6, 2009|access-date=April 16, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kplctv.com/story/35773881/honoring-outgoing-lc-mayor-randy-roach/|title=Honoring outgoing LC Mayor Randy Roach|work=KPLC|first=Theresa|last=Schimdt|date=June 28, 2017|access-date=April 16, 2022}}

Roach attended LaGrange High School, graduating in 1969. He then attended Louisiana State University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in accounting and a Juris Doctor degree. In 1988 Roach was elected for the 36th district of the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving until 1996.

In 2000 Roach was elected as mayor of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was re-elected four times before deciding not to run for re-election in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/fe2ff2ce504446ce9a75680dcec4d528|title=Lake Charles voters elect city's first new mayor in 17 years|work=AP News|date=May 1, 2017|access-date=April 16, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_461e7176-6d99-11ec-9c98-db48b2655a27.amp.html|title=Garey Forster: Nic Hunter is planting a better future for Lake Charles|first=Garey|last=Forster|work=The Advocate|date=January 5, 2022|access-date=April 16, 2022}} June 30, 2017 was declared as "Randy Roach Day" by Lake Charles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kplctv.com/story/35783720/city-of-lake-charles-says-farewell-mayor-randy-roach/|title=City of Lake Charles says farewell to Mayor Randy Roach|work=KPLC|date=June 29, 2017|access-date=April 16, 2022}}