Born on June 26, 1956, in Racine, Wisconsin, Rick Lannoye moved to Texas in order to complete his undergraduate studies at Dallas Baptist University. In 1985, he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Communications, though with a very strong minor in Religion.

But by 1987, finding himself with 2 children to raise on his own after a long custody/divorce battle, Lannoye spent nearly a decade driving for UPS in order to put food on the table, and to buy a decent house in a school district that had bragged about having an excellent record, but which turned out to be anything but the case! In the mid 1990s, Lannoye helped organize a group of concerned parents to bring reform to the school district which had a dismal 45% high school drop out rate and a large amount of graft as the district administration was handing out large contracts to friends and family members. In addition, the district was discriminating against students belonging to religious and ethnic minorities. After a long, public battle, the school district was forced to stop harassing students belonging to religious minorities who had, prior to, been told that could not let anyone know about their beliefs.

It was in the course of this experience, Lannoye received a call from the Texas American Civil Liberties Union and, in the subsequent years, began devoting much of his personal time as a volunteer for the organization. By 2000, Lannoye had become a Board member of the Dallas Chapter of the Texas ACLU and spent 2 years serving as a volunteer (unpaid) lobbyist on the state organization’s Police Accountability Committee.

Meanwhile, Lannoye had changed careers, going to work for a major Telecommunications company in 1999 until he retired early, in 2015, to start his own handyman service. Unlike so many of his competitors whose owners took the lion’s share of profits while using cheap labor to do the actual work, Lannoye organized a co-operative of professionals who each did their part and received their fair share of all the revenues.

In 2020, Lannoye retired from doing handyman work, to become a writer. As of today, he has authored 6 books, most of them having to do with religious topics.

But every now and then, Lannoye has found himself in circumstances that seemed to call him into action, putting his many years of experience as a social, political and religious activist to good use. Such was the situation when, in late November of 2022, the Plano Police Department had organized an illegal and unconstitutional “dragnet,” a form of policing usually restricted to police states, where everyone in a certain area is automatically deemed a criminal suspect until they are deemed innocent. It was in the midst of this dragnet operation that Lannoye and his wife were suddenly and unexpectedly detained by a Plano police vehicle that had moved into a firefight position, right in front of them! Thankfully, because he knew not to make any sudden moves, Lannoye simply waited for the panicking officer who had been misinformed that the approaching vehicle, the one Lannoye and his wife were in, might be an armed-and-dangerous suspect, finally learned he had come dangerously close to shooting a completely innocent couple! In the following months, Lannoye filed numerous complaints to both State and Federal authorities about the abuse of power and dangerous attempt to usurp powers of policing in violation of the US Constitution. As it turned out, a false police report about a gun stolen from a neighbor’s truck is what triggered the local police to implement a plan they had been hoping to trot out as a propaganda success in order to frighten legal gun owners into feeling they ought never to be seen anywhere with their firearms, regardless of how safely and legally they were doing so!

Though the Plano Police did all they could to cover up their power-grabbing intentions and the evidence that would have proven, definitively, how close Lannoye and his wife came to being killed, all plans to add dragnets to the department’s practices were finally abandoned. There’s no telling how many innocent lives may have been lost had Lannoye’s efforts to bring the light of scrutiny on the police department might have, by now, occurred.

Meanwhile, the HOA of Peachtree Village, where Lannoye has owned a home since 2008, had been taken over by a management company, Goodwin & Co., well known for their abusive and invasive tactics, as well as ensuring HOA Board members are favorable to their insatiable profit motives. Once it became clear in February of 2025 that Peachtree Village’s HOA has not had a legitimately-elected Board for many years, if not decades, Lannoye felt he was, once again, being called upon to offer his time, energy and experience to serving his local community.

On March 29, 2025, Lannoye helped organize the Rally for Home Sovereignty, during which a community-wide Referendum, resoundingly removed, by a 95 to 5% margin, the five persons who had been claiming to be the HOA Board, which had been, increasingly and with a lot of discrimination, applying heavy-handed and invasive tactics against many, if not most, of Lannoye’s neighbors. Following their removal, members of the community chose Lannoye to become the new HOA’s Interim President/Secretary in a 75 to 25% vote, until an election for a full-term Board will be organized in the fall of 2025, excluding the interference and manipulation of what many are now calling an "HOA Mafia"—Goodwin & Co.!

Rick Lannoye has been described in many different ways: "a tireless fighter and activist," "a fearless advocate for the marginalized," "an inspiration to those who have been intimidated, abused or discriminated against to learn how to stand up and defend themselves." He's also been called a lot of not-so-nice things: "a trouble maker," a "punk," as well as both a "commie" and a "fascist"! But Lannoye says his most important roles in life were that of striving to do his best to be a good father, grandfather, husband and neighbor.

Here is a brief biography of Peachtree Village HOA's Interim President Rick Lannoye