• District Court, E.D. Louisiana

  Judge

  1998 – present · 28 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• U.S. Magistrate

  U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana

  1984 – 1998 · 14 yrs

• Assistant attorney general

  State of Louisiana

  1980 – 1984 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1977 – 1981 · 4 yrs

• Assistant city attorney

  1977 – 1978 · 1 yr

• Assistant district attorney

  1974 – 1977 · 3 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Robert Collins, Orleans Parish Louisiana Criminal District Court

  1972 – 1974 · 2 yrs

Education