Judge Bourgeois received his Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from LSU and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law School where he graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif. After receiving his law degree, he worked as a commercial litigator in Washington, D.C. with a large international law firm. In 2003, he was appointed as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Louisiana where he served as deputy criminal chief, supervising and prosecuting cases involving computer crimes, as well as large scale schemes involving healthcare, banking and mortgage fraud.

Judge Bourgeois has been a speaker at various continuing legal education programs as well as industry specific programs on matters regarding criminal law and procedure, computer crimes and forensics, health care law, artificial intelligence, as well as civil practice and procedure.

Judge Bourgeois was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana in 2013. He and the other full time Magistrate Judges are responsible for various pretrial proceedings in criminal cases, as well as management of the civil cases pending in the district, including ruling on both non-dispositive and dispositive motions referred by the District Judges, conducting evidentiary hearings and trials in civil cases, and trials in certain criminal cases.