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Jerry Edwards Jr. (born 1979) [1] is an American lawyer from Louisiana who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2023. He previously served as the first assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana from 2022 to 2023.
Congress again abolished the Western District of Louisiana and reorganized Louisiana as a single judicial district on July 27, 1866, by 14 Stat. 300. [1] On March 3, 1881, by 21 Stat. 507, Louisiana was for a third time divided into Eastern and the Western Districts, with one judgeship authorized for each. [1]
On November 12, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Brown to serve as the United States attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. [2] On November 15, 2021, his nomination was sent to the United States Senate. [4] On December 2, 2021, his nomination was reported out of committee by a voice vote. [5]
His most historic and notable appointment was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, ... Jr., the first Black judge to serve on U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. ...
Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The suit against ...
Terry Alvin Doughty (born January 16, 1959) is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He served as a judge on the Fifth Judicial District Court in Louisiana from 2009 to 2018.
On February 4, 2016, President Obama nominated Finley to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, to the seat vacated by Judge Richard T. Haik, who took senior status on March 6, 2015. [5] On May 18, 2016, the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on her nomination. [6]
United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana [6] Former federal courts of Louisiana United States District Court for the District of Orleans ( territorial court of the Territory of Orleans , extinct, abolished when Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812)