James McKay

From Judgepedia

Judge James F. McKay is a justice on the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal.

Biography

Judge McKay is a native of New Orleans, and a 1964 graduate of De LaSalle High School. He graduated in 1969 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette, and earned his Juris Doctorate from Loyola University of the South School of Law.

Legal career

1971-1974 Adult Probation and Parole Officer; 1974-1978 Assistant District Attorney, District Attorney’s Office Orleans Parish Senior Trial Attorney for several Sections of the Criminal District Court and later Senior in Screening Division; 1978-1982 Chief Prosecutor of the Criminal Division for the Metropolitan Office of the State Attorney General’s Office; 1982-1998 Elected to the Criminal District Court bench on December 12, 1982. Re-elected to every six year term to 1998. Handling of major felonies in Orleans Parish from capital cases to misdemeanors; 1996 to present - Elected to the Board of Governors of the American Judges Association; 1997 Appointed to the Executive Committee of the Louisiana District Judges Association; 1998- to present Elected to Louisiana Court of Appeal 4th Circuit on March 7, 1998

Awards, memberships, and civic activities

• American Bar Association
• Louisiana State Bar Association
• Fourth and Fifth Circuit District Judges Association
• American Judges Association
• Knights of Columbus (St. Dominic Council)
• Ancient Order of Hibernians (National Board)
• Firemen’s Charitable and Benevolent Association (President)
• DeLaSalle Alumni Association.

See also

Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal

External links

• McKay Bio page from the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court website

Navigation

	v • d • e Judges of the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal
First Circuit	Burrell Carter (Chief Judge) • Robert Downing •  Edward Gaidry • John Guidry • Jefferson Hughes • Jimmy Kuhn • Page McClendon • J. Michael McDonald • Randolph Parro • John Pettigrew • Jewel Welch • Vanessa Whipple
Second Circuit	Henry Brown (Chief Judge) • J. Jay Caraway • Harmon Drew • Gay Gaskins • John Larry Lolley • D. Milton Moore III • Charles Peatross • James Stewart • Felicia Toney Williams
Third Circuit	Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux (Chief Judge) • Marc Amy • Sylvia Cooks • Oswald Decuir • Billy Ezell • James Genovese • Glenn Gremillion • David Painter • Elizabeth Pickett • Jimmie Peters • John Saunders • Michael Sullivan
Fourth Circuit	Joan Bernard Armstrong (Chief Judge) • Dennis Bagneris • Roland Belsome • Paul Bonin • David Gorbaty • Charles Jones • Michael Kirby • Edwin Lombard • Terri Love • James McKay • Patricia Rivet Murray • Max Tobias
Fifth Circuit	Edward Dufresne (Chief Judge) • Susan Chehardy • Marion Edwards • Jude Gravois • Marc Johnson • Clarence McManus • Walter Rothschild • Fredericka Homberg Wicker