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CONTACT PERSON: VALERIE WILLARD
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER
(504) 310-2590
| JUNE 22 , 2007 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
By order of the Louisiana Supreme Court, attorney Bonita Preuett-Armour has been appointed to the Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee for a term of office commencing June 15, 2007 through April 21, 2011, according to Justice Jeannette Theriot Knoll.
The purpose of the committee is to serve as a resource for judicial candidates, to assist in educating judges and attorneys running for judicial office about the Code of Judicial Conduct, and to help deter impermissible judicial campaign conduct. The Committee is comprised of lawyers, retired judges, and citizens who are neither lawyers or judges.
Preuett-Armour received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana College in 1989 and her law degree from Louisiana State University Law School in 1992. Currently, she is an attorney in the private practice of law at the Armour Law Firm in Alexandria, Louisiana, where since 2002 she has specialized in the areas of civil litigation, insurance defense, and subrogation and products liability. Since 2005, Preuett-Armour has also served as an Assistant District Attorney for Grant Parish.
Admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, for the Western District of Louisiana, for the Middle District of Louisiana, and for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Preuett-Armour is a member of numerous professional organizations, including: the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Alexandria Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, the American Inns of Court, the National Association of Subrogation Professionals, the Louisiana Bar Foundation and the Defense Research Institute.
For more information about the Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee visit the Louisiana Supreme Court web site at www.lasc.org.
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