Ms. Monica A. Taylor
Governor’s Office of Human Trafficking Prevention
Monica Taylor has been appointed by Governor Jeff Landry to serve as the Director of the Governor’s Office of Community Programs and Planning. She will be working with eight programs housed within the Governor’s office. These programs are responsible for providing leadership, support and some grant funding on various community issues related to woman and children, victims of crimes, drug abuse, disability services, and other related issues.

Previously, Ms. Taylor was the Director of Human Trafficking Prevention for the Governor’s office. Ms. Taylor was responsible for leading the states continued efforts in the fight against both labor and sex trafficking. Additionally, Ms. Taylor oversaw issues of domestic violence and sexual assault.

From 2016 to 2023, Ms. Taylor worked for the Louisiana Department of Justice where she focused sexual assault policy, human trafficking, educational outreach, grant writing, and policies/programs dealing with addictive disorders. Ms. Taylor travels the state yearly to host and teach trainings on these issues to law enforcement. Additionally, Ms. Taylor served as the Attorney General’s designee Louisiana Human Trafficking Prevention Commission and as a board member of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, and the Louisiana Alliance of Children’s Advocacy Centers.

Before returning to Louisiana, Ms. Taylor spent 9 years in Washington D.C. where she served on the legislative staff in both the U.S House of Representatives and in the United State Senate. She worked for a national campaign committee and on a presidential race. Ms. Taylor went on to serve as the fundraiser and then the legislative director for the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN).

Ms. Taylor received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (currently ULL). Additionally, during that time, Ms. Taylor has completed 56 hours of PhD course work in Public Policy from University of New Orleans.

Professor Andrea B. Carroll
LSU Law Center
Andi Beauchamp Carroll is the Associate Dean for Student & Academic Affairs and the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the LSU Law Center. Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation. In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property, and property for nearly two decades. Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field. She has recently been published in the Cambridge University Press and her Tulane article on civil law property was honored as outstanding scholarship at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Carroll is active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Children’s Code, Adult Guardianship, Surrogacy, and Property Committees. She has led successful legislative reforms in the areas of child relocation, spousal support, surrogacy, and community property reimbursement rights. As Reporter of the Law Institute’s Marriage and Persons Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.

Mr. Anderson O. Dotson III
Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board
Mr. Dotson has served in various positions with the Disciplinary Board, starting from working with the hearing committees, moving to the board where he served as Vice Chairman, and ultimately becoming Chairman of the Disciplinary Board.

Mr. Dotson earned his bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University in 1996 and his juris doctor degree, magna cum laude from Southern University Law Center in 2000. From 2009 until his appointment as Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Mr. Dotson served the City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge in the parish attorney’s office. He worked as an Assistant City Prosecutor, 2009-2011; First Assistant City Prosecutor, 2011-2015; Chief City Prosecutor, 2015-2019; and Parish Attorney, 2019-2024. Mr. Dotson taught as a part-time Adjunct Professor of Law at Southern University Law Center, 2010/2011-2022, and at Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, 2022-2024. He also worked at Phelps Dunbar LLP, Baton Rouge, La. as an Associate Attorney, 2000-2009, and in private practice, 2010-the present.