John H. Kennard

John Hanson Kennard (1836 – May 2, 1887) was Judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court from December 3, 1872, to February 1, 1873. He also became President of the Board of Directors of the University of Louisiana.

Early life, education, and career

Born in Kent County, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Virginia in 1855, and from the Law Department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University) in 1857. He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, in Fenner's Battery and the Louisiana Artillery,

Judicial service and later life In November 1872, Governor Henry C. Warmoth appointed Kennard to a seat as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and Kennard "filled the place with assiduity and distinction for about three months," after which he "was displaced by an adverse decision as to the title of his office arising from the political complications of that period".

His children were Elizabeth, Mary Helen, Richard Yale and James Wakefield. Her aunt, Lucy Clarissa Wakefield, married to the son of Congressman Lancelot Phelps, and brother of Congressman James Phelps, whose father-in-law, Samuel Ingham, was also Congressman and Senator.

Judge Kennard lived at 149 Broadway in New York, in the Singer Building, and was a member of the Lotos Club.