Paul Hollis was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana House of Representatives

The Louisiana House of Representatives is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Louisiana. The House is composed of 105 Representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people . Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of...

 from the 104th District on October 22, 2011. Hollis, the son of former Louisiana State Senator Ken Hollis

Ken Hollis

Jesse Kendrick Hollis, Jr., known as Ken Hollis , was a Republican Party member of the Louisiana State Senate from Metairie in Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans suburbs...

, defeated Christopher Trahan by a margin of 3905 to 3096. District 104 is newly redrawn as a result of the legislative redistricting plan, Act 1 of the 1st Extraordinary Session of 2011, signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party....

 on April 14, 2011. The district covers parts of St. Tammany Parish

St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

St. Tammany Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana, in the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area. The parish seat is Covington....

, including Mandeville

Mandeville, Louisiana

Mandeville is a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 12,421 in 2008. Mandeville is located on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12. It is across the lake from the city of New Orleans and its southshore suburbs...

 and Lacombe

Lacombe, Louisiana

Lacombe is a census-designated place in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 7,518 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lacombe is located at ....

. Hollis will be sworn into office in January 2012.

Hollis and his wife, Ashley, reside in Mandeville with their daughter.