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U.S. District Court in Louisiana
U.S. District Judges for Louisiana, 1812-1909(may beincomplete!)
DominicAugustin Hall 1812-13DominicAugustin Hall 1813-20ThomasBolling Robertson 1825TheodoreHoward McCaleb 1845-49JohnGayle 1849-59RufusE. Foster 1909
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Louisiana,1829-2017(may be incomplete!)
SamuelH. Harper 1829-37PhilipKissick Lawrence 1837-41TheodoreHoward McCaleb 1841-45TheodoreHoward McCaleb 1849-61EdwardCoke Billings 1876-93EugeneDavis Saunders 1907-09CarltonR. Beattie 1925LouisH. Burns 1925-28WayneG. Borah 1928-49AdrianJoseph Caillouet 1940-46HerbertW. Christenberry 1947-75ElmerGordon West 1961-72RobertA. Ainsworth, Jr. 1961-66FrederickJacob Reagan Heebe 1966-92EdwardJ. Boyle 1966-81LansingLeroy Mitchell 1966-81AlvinBenjamin Rubin 1966-77JackMurphy Gordon 1971-82RogerBlake West 1971-78CharlesSchwartz, Jr. 1976-91MoreyLeonard Sear 1976-2000RobertFrederick Collins 1978-93AdrianDuplantier 1978-94GeorgeArceneaux, Jr. 1979-93PatrickEugene Carr 1979-91VeronicaDiCarlo Wicker 1979-94PeterHill Beer 1979-94A.J. McNamara 1982-2001HenryAlvan Mentz, Jr. 1982-92MarcelLivaudais, Jr. 1984-96EdithBrown Clement 1991-2001HelenGinger Berrigan 1994-StanwoodR. Duval, Jr. 1994-2008OklaJones II 1994-96CarlJ. Barbier 1998-KurtD. Engelhardt 2001-LanceM. Africk 2002-NannetteJolivette Brown 2011-JaneMargaret Triche Milazzo 2011-DonnaSue Morgan 2012-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Middle District of Louisiana,1972-2017(may be incomplete!)
ElmerGordon West 1972-79FrankJoseph Polozola 1980-2007RalphE. Tyson 1998-2011JamesJ. Brady 2000-02ShellyDeckert Dick 2013-JohnWheadon deGravelles 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Louisiana,1829-2017(may be incomplete!)
SamuelH. Harper 1829-37PhilipKissick Lawrence 1837-41TheodoreHoward McCaleb 1841-45HenryBoyce 1849-61AleckBoarman 1881-1916GeorgeW. Jack 1917-24BenjaminCornwell Dawkins, Sr. 1924-53BenjaminCornwell Dawkins, Jr. 1953-73RichardJohnson Putnam 1961-75NaumanSteele Scott 1970-84TomStagg 1974-92EarlErnest Veron 1977-90JohnM. Shaw 1979-96JohnMalcolm Duhe, Jr. 1984-88RichardT. Haik 1991-2015RebeccaF. Doherty 1991-2017TuckerL. Melancon 1994-2009DeeD. Drell 2003-PatriciaHead Minaldi 2003-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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