Michael Joe "Mike" Nerren | |
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Division E Judge, 26th Judicial District Court of Louisiana of Bossier and Webster parishes | |
Assumed office December 2012 |
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Preceded by | Bruce M. Bolin |
Personal details | |
Born |
Place of birth missing |
May 28, 1963
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Suzanne Ondine Hutto Nerren |
Children | Chance, Laurel, and Coleman Nerren |
Parents | Fenely and Connee Smith |
Alma mater |
Haughton High School |
Occupation | Attorney |
Haughton High School
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Michael Joe Nerren, known as Mike Nerren (born May 28, 1963), is the Division E judge of the 26th Judicial District Court based in Bossier and Webster parishes in northwestern Louisiana.
Nerren is the son of Fenely Smith, a former district chief for the fire department in Bossier City, Louisiana, and Connee Smith, a retired employee of the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department. He graduated c. 1981 from Haughton High School in Haughton in south Bossier Parish. Nerren received his undergraduate degree in 1989 from Louisiana State University in Shreveport and his Juris Doctorate in 1994, at the age of thirty-one, from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. He is a former president of the Bossier Bar Association and Bossier Dixie Baseball.
In 2007, he became an assistant district attorney under DA Schuyler Marvin of Minden in Webster Parish. In that capacity, he served as the juvenile prosecutor and handled all cases of youthful offenders between the ages of ten and seventeen.
Nerren and his wife, the former Suzanne Ondine Hutto (born October 1968), a language arts teacher at Cope Middle School in Bossier City, have three children, Chance, Laurel, and Coleman Nerren. They reside in Bossier City.
A Republican, Nerren was elected in 2012 to succeed the retiring Bruce M. Bolin, a Democrat who held the judgeship from its creation in 1991 until his retirement in 2012. Bolin also formerly served in the Louisiana House of Representatives. The court is based in Benton, the Bossier Parish seat of government.