Full Name
Judge Donna Phillips Currault
Company/Firm
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Speaker Bio
The Honorable Donna Phillips Currault serves as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before joining the federal bench, she was a member of Gordon, Arata, Montgomery Barnett, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, LLC in New Orleans, where she handled complex commercial litigation matters including class and collective actions, business disputes, and business torts. She regularly represented employers in defending claims brought under federal and state anti-discrimination statutes and advised clients on employment agreements and non-competition/non-solicitation issues, prepared employment policies and handbooks, and conducted training on employment matters. Before joining Gordon, Arata, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Morey L. Sear, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, from 1989-1990.
Judge Currault graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University School of Law in 1989 and was selected for Order of the Coif. While in law school, she was a Managing Editor and member of the Tulane Law Review. She also served as a Senior Fellow for Tulane Law School’s Legal Research and Writing program.
Currently, Judge Currault is on the Board of Directors of the Foundation of the Federal Bar Association. She is a Life Fellow of the Federal Bar and American Bar Foundations, and Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and Litigation Counsel of America. She is a past Chair of the FBA’s Labor & Employment Section (2015-16) and is currently President-Elect of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, where she has served as a Director since 2002.
While in private practice, Judge Currault was rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell, listed in Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation and Employment Law), Chambers USA Leading Lawyers in Labor & Employment, SuperLawyers Louisiana (Top 25 Women Lawyers and Labor & Employment), Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation, and New Orleans “Top Lawyers” in Labor and Employment Law, and selected as a 2020 Leader in the Law honoree by New Orleans CityBusiness.
Judge Currault graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University School of Law in 1989 and was selected for Order of the Coif. While in law school, she was a Managing Editor and member of the Tulane Law Review. She also served as a Senior Fellow for Tulane Law School’s Legal Research and Writing program.
Currently, Judge Currault is on the Board of Directors of the Foundation of the Federal Bar Association. She is a Life Fellow of the Federal Bar and American Bar Foundations, and Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and Litigation Counsel of America. She is a past Chair of the FBA’s Labor & Employment Section (2015-16) and is currently President-Elect of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, where she has served as a Director since 2002.
While in private practice, Judge Currault was rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell, listed in Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation and Employment Law), Chambers USA Leading Lawyers in Labor & Employment, SuperLawyers Louisiana (Top 25 Women Lawyers and Labor & Employment), Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation, and New Orleans “Top Lawyers” in Labor and Employment Law, and selected as a 2020 Leader in the Law honoree by New Orleans CityBusiness.
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Professionalism: Four Judges From Three Courts Weigh In
