River Parishes Community College was born out of a Senate Concurrent Resolution approved by the 1997 Regular Louisiana Legislative Session. It was the brainchild of State Senator Louis J. Lambert, a native of Sorrento, who along with his colleagues in the legislature, recognized that Louisiana was one of the most populous states in the country without a community college system to serve its citizens. Even though two community colleges had existed in the state for decades, and another was established in 1992, they were not placed within a comprehensive system of their own. In the fall of 1998, Louisiana voters approved a constitutional amendment establishing the Louisiana Community and Technical College System and its Board of Supervisors.
