• District Court, E.D. Louisiana

  Judge

  1996 – 2011 · 15 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• Louisiana Court of Appeal

  Judge

  1990 – present · 36 yrs

Career

• Judge pro tem

  Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Judicial Circuit

  1990 – present · 36 yrs

• Judge

  1989 – 1989

• prac

  1989 – 1989

• Judge

  Louisiana District Court, Twenty-Ninth Judicial District

  1982 – 1996 · 14 yrs

• Judge pro tem

  Louisiana District Court, Twenty-Third Judicial District

  1981 – 1982 · 1 yr

• Law clerk

  Hon. Harry T. Lemmon, Supreme Court of Louisiana

  1980 – 1981 · 1 yr

• Law clerk, Hon. Harry T. Lemmon

  Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Judicial Circuit

  1975 – 1980 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  1964 – 1975 · 11 yrs

Education