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Breaking barriers : a view from the bench /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pitcher, Freddie, 1945- (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Pitcher, Freddie, > 1945-
African American judges > Louisiana > Biography.
African American judges.
Louisiana.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • Prologue. Election Night: A Night of Anxiety and Jubilation
  • 1. How It All Began
  • 2. Career Path: Working the Politics
  • 3. The Phone Call That Started It All
  • 4. Running for Judge and Challenges
  • 5. Making Another Run: Nineteenth Judicial District Court
  • 6. Elected: Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court
  • 7. Moving Up: Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal
  • 8. Postjudicial Years and New Heights in Academia
  • Afterword
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX
  • Illustrations