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Celebrating 200 Years

The Bicentennial of the Louisiana Supreme Court

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Celebrating 200 years . The Bicentennial of the Louisiana Supreme Courrt 1813-2013

 

Louisiana Supreme Court Justices

1813-Present

 

Associate Justice Walter B. Sommerville

Walter Byers Sommerville (1854 – 1924)

Associate Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1911 (18 March) - 1921 (13 Oct.)
Judge, Orleans Parish Civil District Court, 1900-1911

 

Born in New Orleans, October 7, 1854 • Law Clerk for Louisiana Attorney Generals H.N. Ogden and James C. Egan • Assistant New Orleans City Attorney • Died in New Orleans, October 13, 1924 • Portrait painted by Ella Miriam Wood