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HONORABLE JUDGE JOHN MICHAEL
GUIDRY
Court of Appeal
- First Circuit
Judge John Michael Guidry is the
son of Mrs. Annie Mae Jones and the late John
Albert Guidry. He is married to the former
Carol Fowler and they have a son, John Morgan
and a daughter Kennedy Michelle.
Judge Guidry attended the Head
Start Program and later served as chairman of
the East Baton Rouge Parish Headstart Policy
Council. He also served as a consultant
reviewing headstart programs from around the
country for expansion funding. Judge Guidry was
a participant in the Southern University Upward
Bound Program.
Judge Guidry is a 1980 graduate
of McKinley High School, a 1983 graduate of LSU
and a 1987 Cum Laude graduate of the Southern
University Law Center.
Judge Guidry formerly served as a
legislative assistant to the Honorable Joseph A.
Delpit. He also served as the assistant clerk
of the Louisiana House of Representatives and an
assistant parish attorney.
Judge Guidry is a former
commissioner of the Greater Baton Rouge Port
Commission and the Greater Baton Rouge
Metropolitan Airport Commission. Judge Guidry
since 1988 has served as an adjunct professor at
the Southern University Law Center and since
1993 has served as an adjunct professor in the
Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at
Southern University. Judge Guidry in 1991 was
elected to the Louisiana House of
Representatives and to the State Senate in
1993. He was elected to his current position as
a Judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeal in
October 1997.
Judge Guidry remains very active
in community service, civic, and professional
organizations. He is a member of the Louis A.
Martinet Legal Society, the Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, National, and American Bar
Associations as well as the American Judges
Association, the Louisiana Conference Court of
Appeal Judges, and the Louisiana Judicial
Council of the National Bar Association. In
2009 Judge Guidry was elected as the Louisiana
Conference of Court of Appeal Judges
representative to the Louisiana Judicial Council
for a three year term and appointed by the
Louisiana Supreme Court on the recommendation of
its Chief Justice to serve on the governing body
of the Louisiana Judicial College. Judge Guidry
is a Deacon and former Sunday School
Superintendent at the Fairview Baptist Church.
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