Tucker L. Melancon
| Tucker Lee Melancon | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana | |
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Assumed office February 14, 2009 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana | |
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In office February 11, 1994 – February 14, 2009 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Tom Stagg |
| Succeeded by | Elizabeth Erny Foote |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Tucker Lee Melancon February 3, 1946 Bryan, Texas |
| Education |
Louisiana State University B.S. Tulane University Law School J.D. |
Tucker Lee Melancon (born February 3, 1946) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Melancon graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968. He finished studies at Tulane Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1973. He was a managing partner at Melancon & Rabalais, private practice with his colleague, Rodney M. Rabalais, in Marksville, Louisiana, from 1973 to 1993.
On the unanimous recommendation of Louisiana U.S. Senators John Breaux and Bennett Johnston, Melancon was nominated by President Clinton on November 18, 1993 to a seat vacated by Tom Stagg as Stagg assumed senior status. Melancon was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 10, 1994 and received his commission the following day.
Bar Admissions
Melancon has presided over a number of cases in his judicial tenure of fifteen years. He has heard a variety of trials, including class action, tax evasion, drug trafficking, cross burning, as well as issues where the First Amendment and Clean Water Act standards were at stake or being violated. However, his legacy might be his devotion to desegregation in public schools in the parishes which fall under his jurisdiction; St. Landry, Evangeline, and Franklin, among others.
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