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Ernest Nathan Morial: [7] [8] First African American male (a lawyer) to serve as the mayor and a judge in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; 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.
Parishes Served: Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish. District Seats: Iberville Parish Courthouse (Plaquemine, LA), Pointe Coupee Courthouse (New Roads, LA), West Baton Rouge Courthouse (Port Allen, LA)
Catherine D. Kimball (1970): [17] First female elected as a Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District Court (1983) [Iberville, Pointe Coupee, and West Baton Rouge Parishes, Louisiana] Patricia Hedges: [ 26 ] First female appointed as a Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court in Louisiana (1995) [ St. Tammany and Washington Parishes ...
Johnson emphasized civil rights and legal assistance to the poor. After passing the bar, she became the managing attorney at the New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation (NOLAC), serving from 1969 to 1973. [4] In 1984, she was elected to the Orleans Parish Civil District Court, the first woman to serve as a judge in that court. She was re ...
The United States Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (in case citations, M.D. La.) comprises the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana. Court is held at the Russell B. Long United States Courthouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [1]
From 2013 to 2014, he was president of the Baton Rouge Bar Association and from 2016 to 2017 he served as president of the Louisiana State Bar Association. [4] From 2020 until becoming a federal judge, Papillion served on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project of New Orleans.
A court of appeal also has supervisory jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders and decrees in cases which are heard in the trial courts within their geographical circuits. One unique feature of the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana is that they are able to review questions of fact, as well as questions of law, in civil cases.
Abel John "A. J." McNamara (June 9, 1936 – December 2, 2014), was a Louisiana politician and judge who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980 and as a United States district judge of the New Orleans–based United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1982 to 2001.