Juris Doctorate Degree, Louisiana State University, 1970
Attended Louisiana State University (went to law school w/o finishing college)
Bolton High School, Alexandria, Louisiana, 1963
• Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
• Member, American Judicature Society
• Member, State-Federal Judicial Council
• Member, Wex Malone American Inn of Court
• Member, COSCA/NACM National Association for Court Management
• Chair, Louisiana Supreme Court Case Management Infor mation System Task Force
• Chair, Louisiana Supreme Court Technology Committee
• Chair, Southeast Louisiana Criminal Justice Recovery Task Force
• Chair, Judicial Budgetary Control Board
• Board Member, Juvenile Justice Implementation Com mission
• Member, Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission
• Member, U.S. Department of Justice National Integration Resource Center Task Force
• Chair of the Integrated Criminal Justice lnformation System Policy Board
• Member, Leadership Louisiana, Class of 1999
• Member, Louisiana Children's Cabinet
• Member, Judicial Council
• Member, Ethics Committee, 2001
• Member, Louisiana Protective Order Registry (LPOR)
• Supreme Court Liaison to the Louisiana Legislature
• Supreme Court Liaison to District Judges' Association
• American Bar Association Site Committee for Ongoing Accreditation for Southern Law Center, March 2008
• Received the Outstanding Judicial Award from Victims & Citizens Against Crime, Inc.
• Louisiana CASA Association President's Award, 2002
• Received an Ambassador for Children Award from the Louisiana CASA Association, 2003
• Louisiana Bar Foundation, Distinguished Jurist Award, 2006
• Received the Crimestoppers Special Award for Commitment to Community, Southeast Louisiana Criminal Justice Recovery Task Force, 2006
• Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals Alton E. "Jake Hadley Award"
• Inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame, 2006
• Honorary Member of the Louisiana Chapter of Order of the Coif
• Founder of the Sunshine Foundation, which distributes free books annually to Louisiana's pre-schoolers
