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Louisiana Supreme Court Justices: 1813 to the present: LASC Justices who also served as Federal judges

Justices appointed to a federal bench

Appointed during LASC term:

Dominick Augustin Hall

Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit, 1801 - 1804 

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Territory of Orleans, 1804 - 1812

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Louisiana, 1812 - 1813 and 1813 - 1820

Charles Parlange, Jr.

Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1894-1907

Benjamin Cornwell Dawkins, Sr.

Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana, 1924-1948

Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana, 1948 – 1953

Albert Tate, Jr.

Judge, United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979-1986

James L. Dennis

Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, New Orleans, 1995 – present

Greg Gerard Guidry

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 2019 - present

Appointed after LASC term:

Edward Douglass White, Jr. 

Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1910-1921
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1894-1910

Portrait of Judge Dominck Hall sitting on the U.S. District Court in New Orleans in 1815