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>&nbsp;</p><p>Having been elected without opposition, Scott  Crichton is serving his seventh 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 Commission on Law Enforcement and the Louisiana Sheriff&rsquo;s Executive  Management Institute Board as well as Chief Justice Weimer&rsquo;s Judges Imparting  Knowledge, Education and Skills Task Force 2021, recently rebranding his teen  consequences program &ndash; Crime, Consequences and the Power of Choice.&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 on the adjunct faculty of Tulane Law  School and a member of the teaching faculty for the LSU Law Center Trial  Advocacy Program.&nbsp; He also serves on the  Board of Directors of the Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education.&nbsp; Scott has published two second edition  coursebooks, Contemporary Issues in Legal Ethics (2021) and Advanced Appellate  Advocacy; 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).</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.&nbsp; </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. &nbsp;From 2007 to 2014, 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 revised the program,  titled Crime, Consequences and The Power of Choice which, in connection with  the Judges in the Classroom program, will be 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 and Governance  committees as well as the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee.&nbsp; &nbsp;In  2017, he was inducted into Webb&rsquo;s Distinguished Alumni Society.</p><p>Scott credits his parents, Tom and Mary, 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 67, and his  wife, Susie, share time in Webster Parish and New Orleans.&nbsp; They have two sons &ndash; both of whom are  lawyers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> </div></div>
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