Law School
Loyola University, J.D., cum laude, 1993
Law School Graduation Year
1993
College
Loyola University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1989
Memberships
Louisiana State (Vice Chair, Bar Governance Committee; Member, Labor Law Section; Chair, Minority Law Section, 1998-2002), American, Federal (Member, Board of Directors) and National (Member, Convention Planning Committee) Bar Associations; Louis A. Martinet Legal Society; St. Thomas More Inn of Court (Member, Executive Committee); Louis Westerfield Legal Society (Former President)
Biographical
Member, 1991-1993, Team Oralist and Brief Writer; 1992, Moot Court National Spring Team. Team Oralist and Brief Writer, 1993; Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team. Member, 1991-1993, Comment Editor, 1992-1993, Loyola Law Review. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards for Excellence for Torts I, Civil Procedure II, and Evidence. Law Clerk to the Hon. Carl E. Stewart, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1995-1996 and to the Hon. Ivan L.R. Lemelle, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1999-2002. Assistant Bar Exam Grader for the Constitutional of Law Section of the Louisiana Bar Examination. Fellow: Louisiana Bar Foundation; Louisiana Law Institute (2000-2002).