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Chief Justice Pascal
F. Calogero, Jr.
SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
Louisiana Supreme
Court CHIEF JUSTICE PASCAL F. CALOGERO, JR.. received his
Juris Doctor degree from Loyola School of Law in 1954, where
he graduated first in his class and was President of the Student
Editorial Board of the Loyola Law Review. In 1992, almost
forty years after receiving his J. D. degree, Chief Justice
Calogero received a Master of Laws Degree in the Judicial
Process from the University of Virginia.
Chief Justice Calogero
served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1957 as a military
police officer, and then as an officer in the Judge Advocate
General's Corps until separation from the Army with the rank
of Captain. He served as a law clerk to the judges of Civil
District Court in Orleans Parish prior to practicing law from
1958 to 1972.
Chief Justice Calogero
was elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1972 and took
his first oath as Associate Justice on January 10, 1973 to
serve a two-year unexpired term. He was re-elected in 1974
to a fourteen-year term on the Court. He was re-elected again
in 1988 and in 1998. As an Associate Justice, he was a member
of the Judicial Council and the Judicial Ethics Committee.
He also served as the State Court Representative for the National
Center for State Courts, as Chairman of the Supreme Court
Budget Committee, and as Chairman of the Judicial Budgetary
Control Board.
Chief Justice Calogero
was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
on April 9, 1990. As Chief Justice, he serves as the Chief
Administrative Officer of the Louisiana Court System, Chairman
of the Judicial Ethics Committee, the Judicial Council, and
the Human Resources Committee, and as a member of the Conference
of Chief Justices. In December of 1994, he was appointed by
U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to
the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules of the Judicial
Conference of the United States, and, in 1995, he commenced
serving on the National Center for State Courts Time on Appeal
Advisory Committee. In 1997, he was elected to the Board of
Directors of the Conference of Chief Justices.
As Chief Justice,
Justice Calogero has been responsible for numerous major improvements
to the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice
in Louisiana, many of which serve as national models of court
improvement. Just a few examples of such reforms in judicial
administration include creation of the Louisiana Indigent
Defender Board (now an executive branch agency), establishment
of the mandatory Interest on Lawyers' Trust Fund Account Program
(IOLTA) for the purpose of funding law-related programs benefiting
the public and the legal system, improvements in the juvenile
court system, institution of a new lawyer disciplinary system
based on the ABA's Model Code, bolstering of the judicial
disciplinary system, adoption of 5-year Strategic Plans for
the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, and trial courts, adoption
of a uniform pay plan for the state appellate courts, and
establishment of the Supreme Court's Community Relations Department.
Chief Justice Calogero
has lectured to law classes at the University of New Orleans,
Harvard Law School, and Loyola School of Law, and has served
as a judge in law student moot court competitions on numerous
occasions, in addition to authoring articles for law reviews
and the Louisiana Bar Journal. Chief Justice Calogero has
participated in over 6,000 oral arguments and published Supreme
Court opinions, and has authored approximately 1,000 majority
opinions, concurrences and dissents. For almost three decades,
including since 1990 as Chief Justice, he has played a significant
role in the Supreme Court's consistently current docket, notwithstanding
the tripling of annual court filings since 1973.
Chief Justice Calogero
is the recipient of the Louisiana Bar Foundation's 1991 Distinguished
Jurist Award, which is presented annually to the outstanding
judge in the State of Louisiana. On May 18, 1991, Chief Justice
Calogero was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree Honoria causa
from Loyola School of Law. He was also selected an honorary
member of the Order of the Coif by the LSU Law Center, where
he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Chief Justice was
named the 1995 Distinguished National Jurist by the Indiana
University School of Law - Indianapolis for his work in the
area of indigent defense. He was also the recipient of the
national 1995 Judge Bob Jones Memorial Award, which is presented
annually to a judge by the American Judges Association for
significant contributions to judicial education. In 1997,
Chief Justice Calogero was presented the Justice Albert Tate,
Jr. Award by the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers, and in 1999, Chief Justice Calogero received the
Outstanding Judicial Award from Victims and Citizens Against
Crime, Inc. for the fair and impartial manner in which he
conducts his judicial responsibilities and his commitment
to ensure that the criminal justice system works for victims
and for the people of Louisiana. In 2001, Chief Justice Calogero
was honored by the Loyola Law School Alumni Association in
recognition of his distinguished career on the Supreme Court
of Louisiana. In 2005, Chief Justice Calogero received the
Beacon of Justice Award from the American Board of Trial Advocates'
Southeast Chapter, recognizing Chief Justice Calogero as jurist
of the year. Also in 2005, Chief Justice Calogero was
one of the first inductees into the Louisiana Justice Hall
of Fame by the Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation.
In 2007, the American Judicature Society, a national nonpartisan organization dedicated to the effective administration of justice, awarded Chief Justice Calogero the Fourth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. He also was named the 2007 Distinguished Jurist by the Pro Bono Project. Chief Justice Calogero
is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of Pascal
F. Calogero, a City of New Orleans police officer, and Louise
Moore Calogero, both deceased. He is married to Leslie Langhetee
and is the father of ten children, Debbie Calogero Applebaum,
and David, Pascal III, Elizabeth, Thomas, Michael, Stephen,
Gerald, Katie, and Chrissy Calogero.
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