Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
During the past two decades that I have worked to give women access to safe abortion services, a mentally ill man has attacked my clinic with a sledgehammer and butyric acid has been slipped through my clinic's doors. But, the greatest threat to women's access to safe and confidential reproductive health services has been the Louisiana legislature's unending efforts to pass laws that restrict a woman's right to choose abortion.
The courts have been the only protection for Louisiana's women under this constant assault on their rights.
-- Louisiana member of NAF
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Experience: |
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2004 |
Judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals |
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1990 - 2004 |
United States District Court Judge, Southern District, Mississippi |
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1986 - 1990 |
Pickering, Williamson & Walters |
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1981 - 1986 |
Pickering & Williamson |
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1973 - 1980 |
Pickering & McKenzie |
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1971 - 1972,
1980 |
Law Offices of Charles W. Pickering |
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1969 |
City of Laurel Municipal Court Judge |
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1961 - 1971 |
Gartin, Hester & Pickering |
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1961 |
Sole practitioner |
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Education: |
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1957 - 1961 |
University of Mississippi (B.A. 1959, L.L.B. 1961) |
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1955 - 1957 |
Jones County Junior College |
Given recess appointment by President Bush on January 16, 2004
Retired November, 2004
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