Wendy vitter federal judge
Wendy vitter federal judge
District judge.
Wendy Vitter
American judge (born 1961)
Wendy Baldwin Vitter (née Wendy Lee Freret Baldwin; born 1961)[3] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.[4]
Education
Vitter earned a Bachelor of Arts from Sam Houston State University and a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School.
Career
Upon graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk in the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office and eventually rose to chief of the felony trials division. There, she prosecuted over 100 jury trials, primarily homicide cases.[5] Former New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick Sr.
called Vitter "honest, impartial and an outstanding legal scholar with plenty of courtroom experience."[6] Later she practiced at a boutique litigation firm specializing in maritime law and other matters.
Vitter worked as the General Counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orl