Louis Guirola Jr.

Louis Guirola Jr. (born 1951) is the Chief Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Guirola received a B.A. from William Carey College in 1973 and a J.D. from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1979. He was in private practice in Mississippi from 1979 to 1980 and again from 1986 to 1990. He was an assistant district attorney of 19th Judicial District, Mississippi from 1980 to 1984, and a county board attorney of Jackson County, Mississippi from 1984 to 1986. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Texas from 1990 to 1993.

Guirola was a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas from 1993 to 1996, and for United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1996 to 2004. On September 23, 2003, Guirola was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Walter J. Gex III. Guirola was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 12, 2004, and received his commission on March 22, 2004. He became Chief Judge in 2010.

Sources

Louis Guirola Jr. at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Walter J. Gex III	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi 2004–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

E. Louisiana	Engelhardt Feldman Vance Fallon Barbier Zainey Africk Brown Triche-Milazzo Morgan 2 seats vacant

M. Louisiana	Jackson Dick deGravelles

W. Louisiana	Drell Doherty Minaldi Hicks Foote 2 seats vacant

N. Mississippi	Aycock Mills Brown

S. Mississippi	Guirola Wingate Starrett Jordan Ozerden Reeves

E. Texas	Clark Crone Gilstrap Mazzant Schroeder 3 seats vacant

N. Texas	Lynn Fitzwater McBryde Lindsay Godbey Kinkeade Boyle O'Connor 4 seats vacant

S. Texas	Rosenthal Hinojosa Hughes Lake Harmon Gilmore Ellison Crane Hanen Alvarez Miller Saldaña Ramos Marmolejo Bennett Hanks Olvera 2 seats vacant

W. Texas	Garcia Sparks Biery Martinez Ludlum Cardone Yeakel Montalvo Rodriguez Guaderrama Pitman 2 seats vacant

Current members of the Judicial Conference of the United States

Roberts (Chief Justice) Barbadoro Carnes Cole Jr. Conrad Jr. Garland Guirola Jr. Howard Katzmann Maloney Moreno Prost Reagan Riley Schreier Skretny Smith Stark Stanceu Stewart Thomas Traxler Jr. Tymkovich Vázquez Wilken Wood Duff (Administrative Office) Fogel (Federal Judicial Center)

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