Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. (born August 11, 1944), is a Baton Rouge lawyer and a Democratic politician who was the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992 to 2004. Ieyoub was the Calcasieu Parish district attorney in Lake Charles from 1984 to 1992, and is now with the Baton Rouge firm Couhig Partners. Allied with his party's liberal wing, Ieyoub finished in third place in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the U.S. Senate in 1996, and for the Louisiana governorship in 2003.