Louise Wood Flanagan (born June 26, 1962) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Louise W. Flanagan
North Carolina Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Born 1962 in Richmond, VA
FJC ID: 3016
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 8/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 13/year
North Carolina Eastern District Court · 2003–
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Greenville, North Carolina1990–1999
- Private practice, Washington, D.C.1989–1990
Law clerk , Hon. Malcolm J. Howard · 1988–1989
Appointments
- 2003–present · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1988- Wake Forest UniversityB.A. · 1984