Broughan, Crystal Theresa

Beau was born in New Orleans and lived in Slidell until moving to Apple Valley, Minnesota, where his family moved until he graduated from high school. He returned to Louisiana in 1984 to attend L.S.U. and then law school at the L.S.U. Law Center. After graduating law school in 1991, he began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney's office during the Doug Moreau administration. During this course of work from October 1991 to March 1999, cumulatively, while handling over 2000 cases, he prosecuted fifty-three (53) felony jury trials without fail with sixteen (16) of his prosecutions resulting in mandatory life imprisonment sentences and three (3) death penalty sentences.

After being advanced from his initial position of misdemeanor prosecutor to felony prosecutor in March 1993, he was transferred to the District Attorneys Sex Crimes Division where he worked until September 1994. In October 1994, he was moved to Felony Trial Section II with the bulk of the cases then handled by him involving crimes of violence including murder, rape, juvenile sex crimes, robbery, burglary and kidnapping. From his first day in the office, in addition to his regular docket, he also prosecuted environmental crimes beginning in 1991, and was named the Environmental Crimes Chief for the office acting in that capacity from 1996 until leaving the office.

In March 1999, Brock began working for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the Regional Criminal Enforcement Counsel (RCEC) for the Baton Rouge Resident office for EPA Region VI. In this capacity, he acted as sole in-house counsel in Louisiana for the enforcement of Federal environmental crimes, and worked in concert with EPA-CID agents in the investigative process. He was also appointed Special Assistant United States Attorney (SAUSA) on January 18, 2000, for a one (1) year term, in the Federal Middle District of Louisiana, and re-appointed SAUSA for two (2) other one year terms extended  until January 17, 2003, and worked on environmental criminal prosecution teams in the Federal Middle District during that time. He was also appointed SAUSA, in the Eastern District of Texas, in October 2007 through October 2008 on an environmental criminal case. Finally, he was also appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in Iberville Parish and seated and oversaw the first grand jury in state history to hear exclusively environmental criminal matters.

He was appointed Assistant to the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) by then incoming LDEQ Secretary Dr. Harold "Hal" Leggett, February 11, 2008, and re-appointed by his successor, Secretary Peggy Hatch, in January 2010. As such, he performed duties in environmental law and policy as a member of the Secretarys Executive Staff and acted as a key problem solver for the Secretary and his/her staff. His areas of concern involved the breadth and depth of the entire agency and, at times, included project management and supervision of large groups of employees for specialized and limited terms when called upon by the Secretary. In particular, he was designated Hurricane Gustav and Ike Coordinator for the agency in handling non-Incident Command and control issues and hurricane debris management under the direction of the Assistant Secretary of Office of Environmental Services. He regularly coordinated with state-wide and locally elected officials, trade associations, and environmental groups in order to effectively communicate and implement the policies of the department. He managed the LDEQ-Criminal Investigation Division, and completely remodeled its organizational structure and renewed its integrity and mission capability. He led the planning and implementation of the inaugural LDEQ Green Business Expo in August 2010 which proved highly successful for our state.

On August 10, 2010, he was selected by LDEQ Secretary Hatch and appointed by Governor Jindal, to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Environmental Compliance (OEC) at LDEQ. As OEC Assistant Secretary, he is responsible for administering the Civil Enforcement, Surveillance, Emergency Response & Radiation, Air Quality Assessment, and Water Assessment Divisions. In this position, he led several successful initiatives for the department such as the Municipal Sewer Assistance Program, Field Compliance Order plan, development of a new complaint policy, the initiation of the "Cleanfields" program, and the "green thumb" application of the Louisiana Modernization tax credit for pro-active environmental emission reductions, in conjunction with the LED. As Assistant Secretary, Brock was responsible for managing a staff of 432 employees at LDEQ. He resigned this position to join the firm effective, January 21, 2011, and began with the firm on January 24, 2011.

Beau lives in Sherwood Forest subdivision, in Baton Rouge, since 1993.  He was married for 23 years but is now divorced. He has five children, Katie (21), a senior at the United States Air Force Academy; Lauren (19), a sophomore at L.S.U. and graduate of St. Josephs Academy; Travis (14), an eighth grader at St. Thomas More; James (12), a sixth grader at St. Thomas More; and Tommy (9), a fourth grader at St. Thomas More.

He is a member of St Thomas More Catholic Church, and serves on the boards of Aquinas League and Greater Baton Rouge Community Tennis Association.

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Mr. Brock has given over one hundred presentations and lectures to legal, community, and other professional organizations in seminars and classes in Louisiana and other states. His primary areas of expertise are in criminal law, environmental criminal law, professionalism, and litigation.

In Their Own Words, Around the Bar, Sept. 2011