Admitted: 1976, Louisiana
Law School: Tulane University, J.D.
Member: Louisiana State Bar Association; Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1995-1996, 1998-1999; Member, President's Counsel, 1998-1999); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Biography: Recipient: American Jurisprudence Prize for Louisiana Procedure, 1975-1976; The Admiralty Law Institute Prize, 1974-1975. Student Editor and Contributor, The Maritime Lawyer, 1975-1976. Author: "The Long and Winding Road for Spitzfaden, Louisiana's Breast Implant Class Action," Ad Astra per Aspera, 74 TLR 1941 (2000); "A Quantum Service: Maritime Personal Injury and Death Awards From the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal and the Federal District Courts in Louisiana, 1970-1975," The Maritime Lawyer, 1976. Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1976-1978.
Born: New Orleans, Louisiana, December 6, 1952