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Okla Jones II (1971): [42] First African American male to serve as the City Attorney for the City of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana (1986). He would later become a district court judge. Bruce James McConduit: [43] First African American (male) elected to a municipal court judgeship in Orleans Parish, Louisiana (1986)
Toggle Orleans Parish District Courts subsection. 41.1 Current Judges. 42 District 42. 43 References. ... District Seats: Orleans Civil District Court (New Orleans ...
As with the Louisiana Supreme Court, the regular judicial terms on the courts of appeal are ten years. The courts of appeal are housed in the following cities in Louisiana: First Circuit – Baton Rouge. Second Circuit – Shreveport. Third Circuit – Lake Charles. Fourth Circuit – New Orleans. Fifth Circuit – Gretna
The Texas District Courts form part of the Texas judicial system and are the trial courts of general jurisdiction of Texas. As of January 2019, 472 district courts serve the state, each with a single judge, elected by partisan election to a four-year term.
James Carothers Garrison (born Earling Carothers Garrison; November 20, 1921 – October 21, 1992) [3] was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973 and later a state appellate court judge.
The courts uniquely “have intermediate appellate jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases appealed from district or county courts,” the Office of Court Administration explains.
From 1975 to 1976, he was a law clerk to James Gulotta, a judge of the Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. He entered the private practice of law in Louisiana from 1976 to 1977, and was thereafter Director of the Career Criminal Bureau for the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office from 1977 to 1980.
Marla Abel: [59] First female judge in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana (upon her appointment as a Judge of the 17th Judicial District Court in 2020) Bernette Joshua Johnson (1969): [23] [24] First female (and African American female) to serve as a Judge of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court (1984) and its Chief Judge (1994)