Terri Love
2000 - Present
2024
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Terri Love (Democratic Party) is a judge for the 1st District of the Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal. She assumed office in 2000. Her current term ends on December 31, 2024.
Love (Democratic Party) ran for election for the 7th District judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court. She did not appear on the ballot for the general election on December 5, 2020.
Biography
Love graduated from Jackson State University in 1983 with a B.A. in political science. Three years later, she earned her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law. In 2004, she received a LL.M. from the University of Virginia. Love has completed the New York University School of Law's Institute for Appellate Judges. In 2007, Love was selected to attend the International Judicial Academy, where she studied international law in the Hague, Netherlands.[1]
In 1990, Love established a private practice, specializing in family law. In 1993, she was appointed judge ad hoc by the judges of the juvenile court of Orleans Parish. The following year, she was appointed by Mayor Marc Morial to the position of chief deputy city attorney for the City of New Orleans. During that appointment, Love was the lead author of the city's first domestic violence ordinance. In October 1995, Love was elected to the 41st Judicial District. In September 2000, Love was elected to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. In August 2004, she was re-elected to serve a 10-year term. She is also an active lecturer in various continuing legal education programs, and has served as a trial advocacy instructor at the Louisiana State University School of Law. She has also acted as an adjunct professor at Miles College Law School.[1]
Awards
- 2004: Ernest N. Morial Judicial Pacesetter Award, Louis A. Martinet Legal Society
Associations
- Member, Louis A. Martinet Legal Society
- Member, American Judges Association
- Member, New Orleans Bar Association Inn of Court
- Member, National Association of Women Judges
- Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
- Member, Louisiana State Bar Foundation
- Member, National Bar Association
- Board member, American Bar Association's Judicial Division Appellate Judges Conference
- Co-coordinator, Minority Judicial Clerkship Program[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Louisiana Supreme Court elections, 2020
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
General election
The general election was canceled. Piper Griffin won election in the general election for Louisiana Supreme Court 7th District.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Terri Love (D)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Louisiana Supreme Court 7th District
Piper Griffin and Terri Love defeated Sandra Cabrina Jenkins in the primary for Louisiana Supreme Court 7th District on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Piper Griffin (D) | 43.9 | 78,603 | |
| ✔ | Terri Love (D) | 31.5 | 56,387 | |
| Sandra Cabrina Jenkins (D) | 24.6 | 43,949 | ||
| Total votes: 178,939 | ||||
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2014
See also: Louisiana judicial elections, 2014
Love ran for re-election to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal.
As an unopposed candidate, she was automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot.
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Terri Love did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
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Officeholder Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal 1st District |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedbio - ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "November 4, 2014 General Election Candidates," accessed August 25, 2014
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| First Circuit |
John Guidry • Page McClendon • Jewel Welch • Wayne Chutz • Elizabeth Wolfe • Hunter Greene • Walter I. Lanier III • Allison H. Penzato • Mitch Theriot • Steve Miller (Louisiana) • Tess Percy Stromberg • Christopher Hester • | ||
| Second Circuit | James M. Stephens • Jeff Cox • Shonda Stone • Frances Pitman • Daniel Ellender • Jeff Thompson (Louisiana) • Marcus Hunter • Jeff Robinson (Louisiana) • | ||
| Third Circuit |
Elizabeth Pickett • Jonathan Perry (Louisiana) • Ledricka Johnson Thierry • H. Guy Bradberry • D. Kent Savoie • Shannon Gremillion • Gary J. Ortego • Sharon Wilson • Charlie Fitzgerald • Van H. Kyzar • Candyce Perret • Wilbur Stiles • | ||
| Fourth Circuit |
Terri Love • Roland Belsome • Paula Brown (Louisiana) • Daniel L. Dysart • Joy Cossich Lobrano • Karen K. Herman • Tiffany Gautier Chase • Rose Ledet • Nakisha Ervin-Knott • Sandra Cabrina Jenkins • Rachael Johnson • Dale Atkins • | ||
| Fifth Circuit |
Susan Chehardy • Fredericka Homberg Wicker • Jude Gravois • Marc Johnson • John Molaison Jr. • Stephen J. Windhorst • Timothy Marcel • Scott Schlegel • | ||
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