POST-Certified Louisiana Law Enforcement Officer
Class 52 graduate of the St. Martin Sheriff’s Office Training Academy, certified at Level 1.
Louisiana Public Service
Jonathan M. Lee
Public servant, Louisiana civil-law notary, business owner, and writer.
Jonathan’s career has taken him from municipal police departments and parish agencies to civil-law notarial practice, business ownership, and legal study. His work remains rooted in Louisiana and in the practical responsibilities that come with serving other people well.
Public service since 2017
Louisiana civil-law notary
Founder of Rouge
About
A career built close to home.
Jonathan M. Lee began his public-service career in Louisiana law enforcement in 2017, at eighteen years old. Across municipal and parish agencies, he worked in patrol, transportation, dispatch, corrections, field training, and other assignments that required sound judgment, careful documentation, and respect for procedure.
Public service was already familiar to his family. His grandfather, Walter Lee, served as Clerk of Court in Evangeline Parish for more than fifty years. That example helped shape Jonathan’s respect for local institutions, public records, and the ordinary but important work that keeps communities functioning.
After leaving full-time law enforcement, Jonathan expanded his work into Louisiana civil-law notarial practice, business ownership, and legal and business education. He founded Rouge to provide organized, mobile notarial services to families and businesses across North Louisiana.
Public Service
Law-enforcement experience across Louisiana.
Jonathan’s law-enforcement background provided practical experience with public contact, investigations, reports, court procedure, sensitive information, and the daily demands of public responsibility.
Field and Agency Experience
Served in patrol, transportation, dispatch, corrections, and field-training assignments.
Procedure and Public Records
Developed practical experience with legal procedure, public documentation, investigations, courtroom matters, and public-trust responsibilities.
Continuing Service
Continues to serve in a reserve capacity with a local City Marshal’s office.
Prior service includes: Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office, St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office, Eunice Police Department, and Mamou Police Department.
Work & Study
What Jonathan is working on now.
Louisiana Civil-Law Notary
Commissioned to prepare and execute Louisiana notarial instruments within the authority of a civil-law notary.
Founder of Rouge
A mobile notarial practice serving clients through organized preparation, straightforward communication, and convenient appointments.
Paralegal Certificate
Completed through the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Legal and Business Education
Pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration through National University, with additional legal study through Harvard Law School’s Zero-L program.
Tax Services
Preparing to expand Rouge into tax-preparation services and pursue IRS Enrolled Agent status.
Writing
Working on a personal collection of letters for his children about family, responsibility, work, public life, and the people who shaped him.
Forthcoming
The Inheritance of Principles
Letters on Duty, Family, and What We Leave Behind
The Inheritance of Principles is a collection of letters Jonathan is writing to his children. It is not intended as a formal political argument or a catalogue of grand pronouncements. It is an effort to explain, in his own words, what he has learned, what he believes matters, and why.
The idea became more personal as Jonathan watched his father live with Parkinson’s disease. The experience forced him to think about memory, the stories families lose, and how much a child may never know about a parent unless someone takes the time to write it down.
He began the book because he did not want his children to inherit only a few photographs, scattered anecdotes, and conclusions without context. The letters discuss his family, his years in law enforcement, fatherhood, faith, work, mistakes, manners, public life, and the standards he hopes his children will consider when forming lives of their own.
More than anything, it is meant to leave them a candid record of who their father was, who came before them, and what he was trying to build while they were still young.
By Jonathan M. Lee
Currently in development
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Contact
Professional and publication inquiries.
For correspondence concerning Rouge, public service, speaking, or The Inheritance of Principles, Jonathan may be reached by email.