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The Senate confirmed two new federal judges for seats on Louisiana's U.S. District Courts. Senate confirms Shreveport attorney as first Black judge in Louisiana's Western District Skip to main content
Carrie Keller (c. 1915): [49] First female lawyer in Shreveport, Louisiana [Bossier and Caddo Parishes, Louisiana] Donna Y. Frazier: [50] First female Caddo Parish attorney (equivalent to a County Attorney) in Shreveport, Louisiana (2013) Pammela Lattier: [51] First (African American) female to serve as the Chief Judge for the Shreveport City ...
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 ]
Johnnie Cochran (1937–2005), criminal defense attorney for O. J. Simpson; George W. D'Artois (1925–1977), public safety commissioner; Jackson B. Davis (1918–2016), attorney and state senator (1956–1980) Lloyd Hendrick (1908–1951), state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, 1940–1948; Shreveport attorney
A north Louisiana attorney is now the first Black federal judge to serve on the state's U.S. Western District Court following confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Jerry Edwards Jr., of Shreveport, was ...
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Born in Sabine Parish, [2] Smith received a B.S. and an M.Ed. from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. [3] In the 1980s and 1990s, she was an educator. [ 4 ] In 1999, she became the first woman elected as to the state legislature from Bossier Parish, [ 2 ] to a seat vacated by Republican Robert E. "Bob" Barton (born 1948 ...