Louis Guirola Jr. (born 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
Louis Guirola Jr.
Mississippi Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Born 1951 in Baltimore, MD
FJC ID: 3051
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 4/year
Mississippi Southern District Court · 2004–
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- Hispanic
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2013–2016
Eastern District of TexasAssistant U.S. attorney · 1990–1993
Private practice · 1979–1980, 1986–1990- Jackson County, MississippiCounty board attorney · 1984–1986
- Nineteenth Judicial District, MississippiAssistant district attorney · 1980–1984
Appointments
2004–2018 · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1979- William Carey CollegeB.A. · 1973