James ARC (help sponsor fund-raising events and volunteer for ARC events). James Parish Beautiful Board (Board Member for approximately 10 years). As a judge, I have been appointed to serve on several boards serving the legal profession and the courts, including secretary-treasurer of the Louisiana Council of Court of Appeal Judges, member of the Louisiana Judges Supplemental Compensation Fund Board, and member of the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Committee on Judicial Ethics, where I assist in the formulation and issuance of advisory opinions to judges and judicial candidates. Since becoming a judge, I have frequently been selected to serve as a continuing legal education lecturer to judges and lawyers from throughout the state on a wide range of topics, including legal ethics and professionalism. James Parish Notarial Commission for some 20-plus years. I was also appointed to and served as chairman of the St. I was also elected/appointed to serve for many years as a member of the House of Delegates to the Louisiana State Bar Association.
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For several years, I was appointed to and served as a teacher/moderator of the Bar Association’s local high school mock trial competitions. For many years, I was appointed to and spearheaded the local Bar Association’s annual Christmas toy drive. I was elected/appointed to serve two terms as President of the 23rd Judicial District Bar Association and numerous terms as Vice President.
I am currently seeking re-election to the La. My current term ends on December 31, 2020.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal in November, 2010 for a 10-year term on the Court. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal in April 2009 (sworn in on May 1, 2009). I was elected to serve as judge on the La. degree (history and government) from Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA (1975) Juris Doctor degree (law) from LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA (1978). List of educational institutions and degreesī.A. This quintet has joined the court’s existing far-right bloc to create a radically conservative majority that implements the jurisprudence of Trumpism to devastating effect.Voter's Guide, 2020 Fall Elections, LouisianaĪppeals Court Judges: 5th Circuit, 2nd Dist., Division A Duncan is one of five Trump appointees on the 5 th Circuit. He was confirmed by a vote of 50–47, with every Republican present voting in his favor (including Susan Collins), and every Democrat present except Joe Manchin voting in opposition. The vote: Duncan’s blandly evasive performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee failed to persuade Democrats that he would join the judiciary with an open mind. Yet he voted to abolish the independence of an agency that regulates mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack. Duncan voted against reconsidering a panel opinion eviscerating the Fair Housing Act. He also voted to grant qualified immunity to police officers who shot a suicidal teenager-before the teenager had even seen the officers, and, allegedly, without warning him to disarm. He cast the decisive vote halting reforms to the unjust bail system in Harris County, Texas, which a lower court found discriminated against poor people and violated their constitutional rights. Dennis explained in dissent, Jett had merely asked 5 th Circuit to respect her gender identity by using the correct pronouns.)ĭuncan’s record on the 5 th Circuit so far suggests that his hardline views have not budged. Duncan claimed that Jett demanded an order forcing the lower court and the government to use female pronouns under threat of contempt. Then he embarked upon a five-page screed that willfully misinterpreted Jett’s entreaty to be “referred to as” a woman. He first refused to revise her name on court documents on technical grounds, finding no authorization under federal law to consider the motion. In a 2–1 decision, Duncan denied both of Jett’s requests. “I am a woman-can I not be referred to as one?” “I am a woman and not referring to me as such leads me to feel that I am being discriminated against based on my gender identity,” she wrote. Without the aid of an attorney, Jett asked the 5 th Circuit to order a revision of these old court documents to reflect her new name and true gender identity. These documents identified her as Norman Keith Varner, but she has since transitioned and legally changed her name to Kathrine Nicole Jett. Varner, involved a transgender inmate’s modest request to change her name on several court documents.