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This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Louisiana.It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are men who achieved other distinctions such as becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Louisiana 32nd Judicial District (2015– ) Louisiana: active: Lawrence W. Pierce [596] United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1971–1981); United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1981–1995) New York: retired: Victor Pippins Jr. [597] San Diego County Superior Court (2020– ) California: active ...
(three to five judges appointed by the governor) Dominic Augustin Hall 1813, Presiding Judge; Pierre Derbigny 1813–1820; George Mathews Jr. 1813–1836, Presiding Judge; Francois Xavier Martin 1815–1836; Alexander Porter 1821–1833; Henry Adams Bullard 1834–1839; Francois Xavier Martin 1836–1846, Presiding Judge; Henry Carleton 1837–1839
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana (6 P) ... List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Louisiana;
Judge Harris is a native of Louisiana and got her bachelors’s degree and Juris doctor from Southern University, a public HBCU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She opened her own practice, the Harris ...
Analyzing districts to determine where there were problems in minority vote dilution, the court formulated a federal consent decree that established sub-districts within some judicial districts. The consent decree operated from 1992 to 2000, establishing a sub-district in Orleans Parish, with the other sub-district covering the three parishes ...
Rae Swent: [18] First female to serve on the Ninth Judicial District Court in Louisiana; Ann B. McIntyre (1977): [19] [20] First female to serve on the Fifth Judicial District Court in Louisiana; Madeline Jasmine: [21] First African American (female) appointed as a Judge of the Fortieth Judicial District Court in Louisiana (1991). She also the ...
A panel of federal judges who recently threw out a congressional election map giving Louisiana a second mostly Black district said Tuesday the state Legislature must pass a new map by June 3 or ...