Greg G. Guidry
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Assumed office
June 21, 2019
Appointed byDonald Trump
Preceded byKurt D. Engelhardt
Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
In office
January 1, 2009 – June 21, 2019
Succeeded byWilliam J. Crain
Personal details
Born
Greg Gerard Guidry

July 1960 (age 63)
Jefferson, Louisiana, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationLouisiana State University (BA, JD)
National Judicial College (MJS)

Greg Gerard Guidry (born July 1960)[1] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He is a former associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Education and early career

Guidry is a 1985 graduate of the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, at which he was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was selected for The Louisiana Law Review. In 2010, he earned a Master of Judicial Studies from the National Judicial College. He was also awarded a Rotary International Foundation Scholarship for International Understanding. During the scholarship year, Guidry studied classical civilizations and Roman law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Guidry served as an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, where he was both chief of the Violent Crime Unit and chief of the Drug Unit, and an assistant attorney general in the Louisiana Department of Justice.[2]

Judicial career

State court service

Guidry was formerly a judge on the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit, to which he was elected in August 2006. Earlier, Guidry served for six years as a judge of the Louisiana 24th Judicial District Court for Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana.[2]

Louisiana Supreme Court

Guidry was elected to the high court on November 4, 2008, with 160,893 votes (60 percent); his opponent, fellow Republican Judge Jimmy Kuhn, received 108,541 votes (40 percent).[3] His service on the Supreme Court terminated once he received his federal judicial commission.

Federal judicial service

In June 2018, Guidry was considered a contender for a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.[4] On January 16, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Guidry to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.[2] On January 17, 2019, his nomination was sent to the United States Senate. President Trump nominated Guidry to the seat vacated by Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 15, 2018.[5] On February 13, 2019, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[6] On March 7, 2019, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.[7] On June 18, 2019, the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 53–43 vote.[8] On June 19, 2019, he was confirmed by a 53–46 vote.[9] He received his judicial commission on June 21, 2019.[10]

The Associated Press reported Judge Greg Guidry donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and consistently ruled in favor of the church amid bankruptcy involving nearly 500 clergy sex abuse victims. Some ethics experts said Guidry should immediately recuse himself to avoid even the appearance of a conflict.[11][12] About a week later, he decided on a late-night reversal to recuse himself from the bankruptcy case involving the church. He issued his reversal with the statement, “I have decided to recuse myself from this matter in order to avoid any possible appearance of personal bias or prejudice”.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Greg Guidry, July 1960". Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "President Donald J. Trump Announces Nineteenth Wave of Judicial Nominees" White House, January 16, 2019 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ The Times-Picayune, Supreme Court results from NOLA.com Archived March 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, November 19, 2008
  4. ↑ Stole, Bryn; Russell, Gordon (June 20, 2018). "White House eyes Justice Greg Guidry of Louisiana Supreme Court for federal judgeship in New Orleans". The Advocate. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Nine Nominations Sent to the Senate", White House, January 17, 2019
  6. ↑ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Nominations for February 13, 2019
  7. ↑ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – March 7, 2019" (PDF). Senate Judiciary Committee.
  8. ↑ "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Greg Gerard Guidry to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana)". United States Senate. June 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ "On the Nomination (Confirmation Greg Gerard Guidry, of Louisiana, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana)". United States Senate. June 19, 2019.
  10. ↑ Greg G. Guidry at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  11. ↑ Murphy, Paul. "Judge stays on Catholic bankruptcy case amid conflict of interest concerns". wwltv.com. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  12. ↑ Mustian, Jim. "Judge stays on Catholic bankruptcy despite church donations". msn.com. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  13. ↑ Mustian, Jim. "Judge in Catholic bankruptcy recuses over church donations". apnews.com. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  14. ↑ Antonio Vargas, Ramon. "Judge in archdiocese bankruptcy case recuses himself over donations scandal". guardian.com. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
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