Edmond Boudreaux

Edmond Boudreaux born in 1949 to Edmond Boudreaux Sr. and Nita Mae Thomas. Raised on Biloxi's Point where many of his relatives and friends worked in Biloxi's seafood industry. He is a 1967 graduate of Notre Dame High School in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was an AT&T service technician from 1973 until 2010, when he retired. He is the administrative vice-president of the Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society; past president of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Mississippi Archaeological Association; an acquisition committee member of the Ohr/O'Keefe Museum of Art; an advisory board member of the Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum; a member of the Community Advisory Committee Mississippi State Historical Museum; and a French colonial re-enactor since 1992. He is a writer of the Time Traveler article for the Biloxi/D'Iberville Press Newspaper. He was awarded the Calvin Brown Award and the Mississippi Governor Commendation for archaeology in 1992. He was the City of Biloxi's Historian of the Year in 1993. On October 27, 2011 the Mississippi Department of Archives & History presented him with a Resolution of Commendation for his leadership in historical causes, his work in support of MDAH programs and his scholarship on the history of the Gulf Coast. City of Biloxi 2015 Art & History Volunteer of the Year.