About Ed Blewer

This foundation carries Ed Blewer’s name because he was a towering figure of integrity in the recovery community. If you had the good fortune to cross paths with Ed, you would never forget him. Carrying his name, this foundation seeks to honor and support those suffering from addiction in our state.

In 1985, Ed and four other attorneys were the founding members of the Impaired Lawyers Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association which evolved into the Lawyers Assistance Program(LAP). He served as Chairman of LAP for six years.

He also served on and was President of the Board of the Louisiana Association on Compulsive Gambling. For a number of years he served on our state's Commission on Addictive Disorders, having been appointed to it by five (5) consecutive governors.

Ed was a very active member of the board of the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of Northwest Louisiana for a number of years and was President in 1987. He received the Council's Wayne Drewry Award for outstanding service to the community in 1989.

In November of 2008, Ed was named "Samaritan of the Year" by the Samaritan Counseling Center.

He died in Shreveport on Tuesday, January 27, 2009.

Edwin Laurine Blewer, Jr. was born June 7, 1933 in Shreveport to Edwin L. Blewer and Mildred Sewall Blewer. His great, great, great uncle was Shreveport's first mayor, John O. Sewall.

After graduating from C.E. Byrd High School, he attended L.S.U., eventually graduating from its law school. He finished first in his law school class where he was a member of the Louisiana Law Review, Order of the Coif and Omicrom Delta Kappa.

Ed served in the United States Army before joining the law firm Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway where he practiced for 50 years.

A member of the Shreveport Bar Association, he served as its president in 1988 and received its Professionalism Award in 2004. As a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, he served both in the House of Delegates and on the Board of Governors, receiving its President's Award in 1995. He was also a member of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. In the American Bar Association, after serving for several years as a member of the Commission on Lawyers Assistance Program, he became its Chairman from 1998-2001.