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Judge
Charles B. Peatross is a justice on the
Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal.
Biography
Judge Peatross is a graduate of C.E. Byrd High School and earned his B.B.A. in 1963 from Tulane University. Judge Peatross earned his Juris Doctorate in 1964 from Tulane Law School.
Legal career
Judge Peatross clerked for the Second Circuit Court of Appeal between August 1964 and August 1965. He would practice law for 31 years as Senior Partner in Peatross, Greer & Frazier in Shreveport before being elected as an Appellate Judge to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in 1996, and again without opposition in 2002. Judge Peatross is admitted to practice law in both Louisiana and Colorado.[1]
Awards, memberships, and civic activities
- President of the Second Circuit Judges Association (2001-2002)
- President of the Shreveport Bar Association (1995)
- Executive Committee of the Shreveport Bar Association (1994-1996)
- Shreveport City Attorney (1983-1986)
- Shreveport City Council (1978-1982) and Chairman of Council (1982)
- Louisiana State Chairman, National Institute of Municipal Law Officers (1984-1986)
- Representative to the Louisiana House of Delegates (1974-1994)
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Shreveport-Bossier Metropolitan YMCA (1980-1982)
- Long Range Planning Committee of the Shreveport Bar Association (1998-2000)
- Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Louisiana Bar Association (1996-2001)
- Louisiana Appellate Rules Committee (1998 to present)
- Judicial Liaison Committee of the Louisiana Bar Foundation (1999-2001)
- Appointed by Louisiana Supreme Court to an Ad Hoc committee to study the feasibility of a mandatory internship program for new attorneys (2000-2004)
- Harry V. Booth Inn of Court
- Member of First United Methodist Church of Shreveport and former member of its Administrative Board[2]
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