Scott J. Crichton - Associate Justice - Louisiana Supreme Court

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<div class="col-md-12"><div class="col-md-4"><table style=""><tbody style=""><tr style=""><td style="text-align:justify;"><br /><img alt="Associate Justice Scott Crichton" src="/biography%2FScott_J_Crichton.jpg" style="pointer-events:none;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td>Louisiana Supreme Court<br />Associate Justice Scott J. Crichton </td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="col-md-8"><h3>ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SCOTT J. CRICHTON</h3><p>Having been elected without opposition, Scott Crichton is serving his eighth year as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.&nbsp; Scott is Chair of the Louisiana Judicial College; he is also the court&rsquo;s statutory designee to the Louisiana Sheriffs&rsquo; Executive Management Institute Board and the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, as well as the Judges Imparting Knowledge, Education and Skills Task Force.&nbsp; He is the recipient of the 2022 Judge Benjamin Jones Judges in the Classroom Award.&nbsp; He previously served two consecutive terms on the Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics and has served on the court&rsquo;s Internal Audit Committee and Human Resources Committee. </p><p>Scott is a member of the adjunct faculty of Tulane Law School and has published two second edition coursebooks, Contemporary Issues in Legal Ethics (2021) and Advanced Appellate Advocacy (2020); he co-authored an article in Louisiana Law Review, <em>Appealing Standards: Louisiana&rsquo;s Constitutional Provision Governing Appellate Review of Criminal Facts</em>, 79 La.&nbsp; L. Rev. 360 (2018).&nbsp; He has also served on the faculty for the LSU Law Center Trial Advocacy Program.</p><p>Prior to his election to the Supreme Court, Scott served 24 years as a judge with the First Judicial District Court (Shreveport/Caddo Parish), presiding in both the civil and criminal divisions.</p><p>Scott is a past president of the Louisiana District Judges Association, a past member of the Advisory Committee to the Supreme Court on Revision of the Judicial Canons, the Louisiana Judicial College Board of Governors, and the Criminal Best Practices Committee.&nbsp; He has served numerous terms as chair or co-chair of the Shreveport Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee and has served on the CLE Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association.&nbsp; Scott is certified by the National Judicial College in program design and has taught over 200 CLE hours to lawyers and judges.&nbsp; He is also a graduate of the inaugural class of the Louisiana Judicial Leadership Institute. From 2007 to 2014, Scott was an occasional co-host of a popular Shreveport Sunday morning radio program, &ldquo;Praise Temple Countdown.&rdquo;&nbsp; Also, during that time, Scott hosted an educational program for teenagers at various north Louisiana high schools on the law.&nbsp; Through the newly created Judges Imparting Knowledge, Education and Skills Task Force 2021, he has designed a PowerPoint presentation for high school students, titled Crime, Consequences and the Power of Choice which, in connection with the Judges in the Classroom program, has been instituted state-wide.</p><p>Scott grew up in Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; In 1968, at the age of 14, he enrolled as a boarding student at The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.&nbsp; Scott completed North Carolina Outward Bound School (1971); graduated from The Webb School (1972); Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (Bachelor of Science, 1976); and Paul M. Hebert LSU Law Center (Juris Doctor, 1980).&nbsp; &nbsp;During the 1980s, he served as an assistant district attorney for Caddo Parish, maintained a civil litigation practice, and served on the adjunct faculty of LSU-Shreveport. </p><p>Scott is a member of St. Mark&rsquo;s Episcopal Church in Shreveport, where he served on the vestry; he is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Webb School, where he serves on the Executive, Governance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Excellence in Teaching and Learning committees.&nbsp; In 2017, he was inducted into Webb&rsquo;s Distinguished Alumni Society. </p><p>Scott credits his parents, Tom (owner, hardware store/cattle rancher) and Mary (homemaker and life master, bridge), with instilling the virtues of humility, education, and a commitment of service to community, all of which have guided him throughout life.&nbsp; Scott, age 68, and his wife, Susie, share time in Webster Parish and New Orleans.&nbsp; They have two sons &ndash; both of whom are lawyers.</p></div></div><div class="col-md-12"><p><br /></p></div>
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