William Jennings Jefferson is an American former politician from Louisiana whose career ended after his corruption scandal and conviction. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for nine terms from 1991 to 2009 as a member of the Democratic Party. He represented Louisiana's 2nd congressional district,which includes much of the greater New Orleans area. He was elected as the state's first black congressman since the end of Reconstruction.
Mitchell Joseph Landrieu is an American lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Texarkana is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Bowie County,Texas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders.
Clarence Raymond Joseph Nagin Jr. is an American former politician who was the 60th Mayor of New Orleans,Louisiana,from 2002 to 2010. A Democrat,Nagin became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Leonie Helen Milhomme Brinkema is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr. is an American attorney who served as the district attorney of Orleans Parish,Louisiana,from 1973 to 2003. His son,Harry Connick Jr.,is an American musician. Connick is also a singer,long performing a few nights a week at local clubs as a hobby.
The first round of the New Orleans mayoral election of 2006 took place on April 22,2006;a runoff between incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu took place on May 20,resulting in reelection for Mayor Nagin. The Mayor of New Orleans is the top official in New Orleans' mayor-council system of government.
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is a private law school in New Orleans,Louisiana affiliated with Loyola University New Orleans. Loyola's law school opened in 1914 and is now located on the Broadway Campus of the university in the historic Audubon Park District of the city. The College of Law is one of fourteen Jesuit law schools in the United States. It is also one of the few law schools in the nation to offer curricula in both Civil Law and Common Law. The school releases several academic journals,most notable of which is the Loyola Law Review.
Tucker Lee Melançon is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Richard Pennington served as Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department in New Orleans,Louisiana from 1994 to 2002 and Chief of the Atlanta Police Department in Atlanta,Georgia from 2002 to 2010.
Ronald D. Bodenheimer was a judge in Jefferson Parish,Louisiana,convicted of various federal charges resulting,in part,from an FBI probe called Operation Wrinkled Robe. Bodenheimer spent more than three years in federal prison,additional time in a half-way house,and was released on September 21,2007,to serve the remainder of his term under probation under house confinement.
Ivan L. R. Lemelle is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Mary Ann Vial Lemmon is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Patricia Minaldi was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
On the morning of September 4,2005,six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans,members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD),ostensibly responding to a call from an officer under fire,shot and killed two civilians at the Danziger Bridge:17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison,a mentally disabled man,was shot in the back. The shootings caused public anger and further eroded the community's trust in the NOPD and the federal response to Hurricane Katrina overall.
Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. is an American lawyer who previously served as the assistant attorney general for the criminal division in the United States Department of Justice from 2021 to 2023. He also served as a United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 2013 to 2017.
Wendy Baldwin Vitter is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Dana Marie Douglas is an American attorney who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
