Name Louis Jr. Role Judge | ||
Education William Carey University | ||
Louis Guirola Jr. (born 1951) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
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Education and career
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Guirola received a Bachelor of Arts degree from William Carey College in 1973 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1979. He was in private practice in Mississippi from 1979 to 1980 and again from 1986 to 1990. He was an assistant district attorney of 19th Judicial District, Mississippi from 1980 to 1984, and a county board attorney of Jackson County, Mississippi from 1984 to 1986. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Texas from 1990 to 1993.
Federal judicial service
Guirola was a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas from 1993 to 1996, and of United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1996 to 2004. On September 23, 2003, Guirola was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Walter J. Gex III. Guirola was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 12, 2004, and received his commission on March 22, 2004. He became Chief Judge in 2010.