United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (in case citation

Case citation

Case citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a 'neutral' form which will identify a decision wherever it was reported...

s, W.D. La.) is a United States federal court with jurisdiction over approximately two thirds of the state of Louisiana

Louisiana

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

, with courts in Alexandria

Alexandria, Louisiana

Alexandria is a city in and the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes....

, Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana

Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...

, Lake Charles

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Located in Calcasieu Parish, a major cultural, industrial, and educational center in the southwest region of the state, and one of the most important in...

, Monroe

Monroe, Louisiana

Monroe is a city in and the parish seat of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 53,107, making it the eighth largest city in Louisiana. A July 1, 2007, United States Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 51,208, but 51,636...

and Shreveport

Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....

. These cities comprise the Western District of Louisiana

Louisiana

.

Appeals from the Western District of Louisiana are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Louisiana* Middle District of Louisiana...

(except for patent

Patent

A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act

Tucker Act

Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....

, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

-Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...

Jurisdiction

The parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

es that fall under the jurisdiction of this district are as follows:

Acadia Parish, Louisiana

Acadia Parish, Louisiana

Acadia Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Crowley. According to the 2010 census, the population of Acadia Parish is 61,773. The parish was founded from parts of St...

; Allen Parish, Louisiana

Allen Parish, Louisiana

Allen Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Oberlin. As of the 2000 census, the population was 25,440. Allen Parish is in southwestern Louisiana, southwest of Alexandria....

; Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

Avoyelles is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Marksville. In 2000, its population was 41,481. The parish is named for the Avoyel Indian tribe.-History:...

; Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

Beauregard Parish [p] is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Beauregard Parish was formed on 1 January 1913. The parish seat is DeRidder. As of 2000, the population was 32,986. Beauregard Parish is part of the DeRidder Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Fort Polk...

; Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Bienville Parish is a parish located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Arcadia and as of the 2000 census, the population is 15,752....

; Bossier Parish, Louisiana

Bossier Parish, Louisiana

Bossier Parish is named for Pierre Bossier, a 19th-century Louisiana state senator and U.S. representative from Natchitoches Parish.Bossier Parish was spared fighting on its soil during the American Civil War...

; Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Caddo Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Shreveport; as of 2000, the population was 252,161...

; Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Calcasieu Parish[p] is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Lake Charles. As of 2010, the parish population was 192,768...

; Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 10,560 people, 3,941 households, and 2,817 families residing in the parish. The population density was 20 people per square mile . There were 5,035 housing units at an average density of 10 per square mile...

; Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Cameron Parish is the parish with the most land area in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Cameron and as of 2010, the population was 6,839...

; Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

Catahoula Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its seat is Harrisonburg, located on the Ouachita River, which forms the eastern boundary of the parish. In 2000, the population of the parish was 10,920.-Prehistory:...

; Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

Claiborne Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Homer and as of 2000, the population is 16,851.-History:The parish is named for the first Louisiana governor, William C. C. Claiborne....

; Concordia Parish, Louisiana

Concordia Parish, Louisiana

Concordia Parish borders the Mississippi River in eastern Louisiana. The parish seat is Vidalia. As of 2000, the population was 20,247. It is part of the Natchez, MS–LA Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Prehistory:...

; Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

Jefferson Davis Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Jennings. As of 2000, its population was 31,435. Jefferson Davis Parish is named after the president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis. It is located in southwestern...

; De Soto Parish, Louisiana

De Soto Parish, Louisiana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 26,656 people, 9,691 households, and 6,967 families residing in the parish. The population density was 29 people per square mile . There were 11,204 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile...

; East Carroll Parish, Louisiana

East Carroll Parish, Louisiana

East Carroll Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Lake Providence and as of 2010, the population was 7,759.-Law and government:In the 2004 presidential race, East Carroll gave the George W. Bush - Richard B...

; Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 35,434 people, 12,736 households, and 9,157 families residing in the parish. The population density was 53 people per square mile . There were 14,258 housing units at an average density of 22 per square mile...

, Franklin Parish, Louisiana

Franklin Parish, Louisiana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 21,263 people, 7,754 households, and 5,706 families residing in the parish. The population density was 34 people per square mile . There were 8,623 housing units at an average density of 14 per square mile...

, Grant Parish, Louisiana

Grant Parish, Louisiana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 18,698 people, 7,073 households, and 5,276 families residing in the parish. The population density was 29 people per square mile . There were 8,531 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile...

, Iberia Parish, Louisiana

Iberia Parish, Louisiana

Iberia Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is New Iberia. As of 2000, the population was 73,266.Iberia Parish is part of the New Iberia Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Lafayette–Acadiana Combined Statistical Area.Iberia, along with...

, Jackson Parish, Louisiana

Jackson Parish, Louisiana

Jackson Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish was formed in 1845 from parts of Claiborne, Ouachita, and Union Parishes. In 2010, its population was 16,274. The parish seat is Jonesboro...

, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Lafayette Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Lafayette. According to the 2010 Census, its population was recorded as 221,578....

, La Salle Parish, Louisiana

La Salle Parish, Louisiana

La Salle Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of 2000, the population was 14,282. The parish seat is Jena.-Geography:The parish has a total area of , of which is land and is water....

, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

Lincoln Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Ruston. In 2004, its population was estimated to be 42,382...

, Madison Parish, Louisiana

Madison Parish, Louisiana

-National protected areas:* Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge * Vicksburg National Military Park -Demographics:-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S...

, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Morehouse Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Bastrop. In 2000, the parish population was 31,021....

, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

Natchitoches Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Natchitoches. As of 2000, the population was 39,080. This is the heart of the Cane River Louisiana Creole community...

, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

-National protected areas:* Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge* D'Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 147,250 people, 55,216 households, and 38,319 families residing in the parish. The population density was 241 people per square mile...

, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Rapides Parish, Louisiana

-Military Installations:*Camp Beauregard *Esler Airfield *England Air Force Base *Camp Claiborne *Camp Livingston -Demographics:...

, Red River Parish, Louisiana

Red River Parish, Louisiana

Red River Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its seat is Coushatta. It was one of the newer parishes created in 1871 by the state legislature under Reconstruction...

, Richland Parish, Louisiana

Richland Parish, Louisiana

Richland Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Rayville. As of 2010, the population was 20,725.-History:...

, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Sabine Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The seat of the parish is Many. In 2010, the parish's population was 24,233....

, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana, Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana, Tensas Parish, Louisiana

Tensas Parish, Louisiana

Tensas Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The seat of the parish is St. Joseph. In 2010, the population of Tensas Parish was 5,252; it is the least-populous of all sixty-four parishes....

, Union Parish, Louisiana

Union Parish, Louisiana

Union Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Farmerville....

, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

Vermilion Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Abbeville. As of the 2010 census, the population was 57,999....

, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

Vernon Parish, Louisiana

Vernon Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Leesville and as of 2000, the population was 52,531....

, Webster Parish, Louisiana

Webster Parish, Louisiana

Webster Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The seat of the parish is Minden. In 2010, its population was 41,207....

, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

West Carroll Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Oak Grove and as of 2000, the population was 12,314.-History:...

, and Winn Parish, Louisiana

Winn Parish, Louisiana

Winn Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its seat is Winnfield. In 2000, its population was 16,894.The parish has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....

History

On March 26, 1804, Congress organized the Territory of Orleans and created the United States District Court for the District of Orleans

United States District Court for the District of Orleans

The United States District Court for the District of Orleans was a United States district court created on March 26, 1804, by 2 Stat. 283, to resolve disputes in the Territory of Orleans, the portion of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 33rd parallel....

- the only time Congress provided a territory with a district court equal in its authority and jurisdiction to those of the states. The United States District Court for the District of Louisiana was established on April 8, 1812, by 2 Stat. 701, several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times. It was first subdivided into Eastern

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana is a federal trial court based in New Orleans. Like all U.S...

and Western Districts on March 3, 1823, by 3 Stat. 774.

On February 13, 1845, Louisiana was reorganized into a single District with one judgeship, by 5 Stat. 722, but was again divided into Eastern and the Western Districts on March 3, 1849, by 9 Stat. 401. Congress again abolished the Western District of Louisiana and reorganized Louisiana as a single judicial district on July 27, 1866, by 14 Stat. 300. 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. The Middle

United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

The United States Court for the Middle District of Louisiana comprises the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana. Court is held at the United States Courthouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...

District was formed from portions of those two Districts on December 18, 1971, by 85 Stat. 741.

U.S. Attorneys

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/law/aboutus/history.html

A partial list of United States attorneys, including some serving when Louisiana was a territory prior to becoming a state, is as follows:

James Brown - Appointed by President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

in 1805
James R. Grymes - Appointed by President James Madison
James Madison
James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...

in 1811
John Dick - 1815
Henry Boyce - Appointed by President Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...

in March 1849
Lawrence P. Chain
George W. Jack
George W. Jack
George Whitfield Jack was appointed to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana as District Judge in 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson. He was previously the United States Attorney for the same district since 1913. He received his law degree from the Tulane University...

- Appointed by President Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

in 1913
Donald W. Washington - Appointed by President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

in September 2001

Current judges

Former judges

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
Alexander Boarman Alexander Boarman Alexander 'Aleck' Boarman was a United States federal judge appointed to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and United States Congressman. He fought in the American Civil War for the Confederate States of America from 1861–1865; during the war he was...	James A. Garfield			–	death
Henry Boyce Henry Boyce Henry Boyce was a United States federal judge.Born in Derry, Ireland, Boyce read law to enter the bar in 1820. He began a private practice in Bayou Leche, Louisiana by 1824, and was then in Alexandria, Louisiana from 1824 to 1828. He was a planter in Rapides Parish, Louisiana from 1828,...	Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...

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| W. Eugene Davis

W. Eugene Davis

W. Eugene Davis is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His chambers are in Lafayette, Louisiana.Born in Winfield, Alabama, Davis attended the University of Alabama and Samford University. After three years at Samford, he received a scholarship to Tulane University...

||Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

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| Benjamin C. Dawkins, Sr.

Benjamin C. Dawkins, Sr.

Benjamin Cornwell Dawkins, Sr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Ouachita City, Louisiana, Dawkins completed his law degree at Tulane University in 1906 and entered private practice in Monroe, Louisiana until 1912...

||Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

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| Benjamin Cornwell Dawkins Jr.||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| John Dick

John Dick (judge)

John Dick was a United States federal judge in Louisiana.Born in County Tyrone, Ireland, Dick read law in 1811, and was in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1812 to 1815...

||James Monroe

James Monroe

James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...

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| John Malcolm Duhe Jr.||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Samuel Hadden Harper

Samuel Hadden Harper

Samuel Hadden Harper was a United States federal judge.Born in Augusta County, Virginia, Harper was in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1808 to 1829...

||Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

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| Edwin Ford Hunter Jr.||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| George W. Jack

George W. Jack

George Whitfield Jack was appointed to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana as District Judge in 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson. He was previously the United States Attorney for the same district since 1913. He received his law degree from the Tulane University...

||Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Philip Kissick Lawrence

Philip Kissick Lawrence

Philip Kissick Lawrence was a United States federal judge.Lawrence's date of birth is unknown, but he was in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana prior to 1837, and was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was an editor of the New Orleans Morning Post from 1835 to 1836, and...

||Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States . Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ....

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| F. A. Little, Jr.

F. A. Little, Jr.

F. A. Little, Jr. is a former United States federal judge.Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Little received a B.A. from Tulane University in 1958 and a J.D. from Tulane Law School in 1961...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Theodore Howard McCaleb

Theodore Howard McCaleb

Theodore Howard McCaleb was a United States federal judge.Born in Claiborne County, Mississippi, McCaleb attended Yale College, and read law to enter the Bar in 1832...

||John Tyler, Sr.

John Tyler, Sr.

John Tyler Sr. was a Virginia planter, judge, 15th Governor of Virginia and the father of the 10th President of the United States, John Tyler....

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| Gaston Louis Noel Porterie

Gaston Louis Noel Porterie

Gaston Louis Noel Porterie was a United States federal judge.Born in Mansura, Louisiana, Porterie received a B.S. from Louisiana State University in 1904 and an LL.B. from Louisiana State University Law School in 1915. He was in private practice in Marksville, Louisiana from 1915 to 1920...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Richard Johnson Putnam

Richard Johnson Putnam

Richard Johnson Putnam was a United States federal judge.Born in Abbeville, Louisiana, Putnam received a B.S. from Spring Hill College in 1934 and an LL.B. from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law in 1937. He was in private practice in Abbeville, Louisiana from 1937 to 1954. He was a U.S...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Thomas B. Robertson

Thomas B. Robertson

Thomas Bolling Robertson was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana, the third Governor and the Attorney General of Louisiana, and a United States federal judge....

||James Monroe

James Monroe

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| Nauman Scott

Nauman Scott

Nauman Steele Scott, II , was a Republican-appointed federal judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana from 1970 until 2001, who ordered cross-parish busing guidelines in 1980 to foster racial balance in Rapides Parish public schools...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| John Malach Shaw

John Malach Shaw

John Malach Shaw was a United States federal judge.Born in Beaumont, Texas, Shaw received a B.S. from Washington and Lee University in 1953 and a J.D. from Louisiana State University Law School in 1956. He was in the United States Army from 1956 to 1958, and then in the United States Army Reserve...

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| Earl Ernest Veron

Earl Ernest Veron

Earl Ernest Veron was a United States federal judge.Born in Smoke Bend, Louisiana, Veron received a B.A. from McNeese State University in 1957 and a J.D. from Louisiana State University Law School in 1959. He was in private practice in Lake Charles, Louisiana from 1959 to 1968...

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

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