Hon. Jane Triche Milazzo, U.S. District Judge, USDC-EDLA

Judge Jane Milazzo was sworn in as a United State District Court Judge on October 12, 2011.

Judge Milazzo graduated from LSU Law School in 1992 and immediately went into practice with her family at the Law Offices of Risley Triche, LLC, where she engaged in a general civil practice. In 2008, Judge Milazzo was elected to the 23rd Judicial District Court.

During her years in private practice and in the state and federal judiciary, Judge Milazzo served as president of both the Assumption Parish Bar Association and the Twenty-Third Judicial District Bar Association.  She was a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association House of Delegates where she served as chair of the legislative committee.  As a state district court judge, she served on the executive committee of the District Judges Association. 

Judge Milazzo regularly speaks to lawyers on issues of professionalism, advocacy, and complex litigation.  She currently presides over the multidistrict litigation, In Re: Taxotere (Docetaxel) Products Liability Litigation.

Judge Milazzo is the President of the Federal Bar Association.

She is married to her husband, John.  They have six children and five grandchildren.

Hon. Darrel James Papillion, U.S. District Judge, USDC-EDLA

Darrel James Papillion is a district judge who serves on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans. He was appointed by President Biden in June 2023.  Prior to becoming a federal judge, he was a civil litigation attorney in New Orleans and Baton Rouge for nearly 30 years and was a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.

He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and served as a law clerk to Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Catherine D. Kimball.

Kerry Miller, Miller, Thibodeaux, Dysart, Veith & Paschal LLC

Kerry Miller is a founding partner of Miller Thibodeax Dysart Veith & Paschal in New Orleans. For 30 years, Kerry’s favorite place to practice has been the Eastern District of Louisiana where he has tried cases involving environmental contamination, products liability, breach of contract, breach of lease, redhibition, unfair trade practices, Jones Act, civil and criminal RICO and civil and criminal provisions of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act.  Kerry has tried cases for plaintiffs and defendants, companies and individuals, judge and jury trials, and bellwether and limited issue trials in multi-district litigation (MDL) proceedings.

In addition to his trial experience, Kerry has gained unique complex litigation experience as the appointed lead counsel in the BP oil spill MDL, Chinese Drywall MDL and Hurricane Katrina related environmental litigation. In these sprawling cases, Kerry has litigated all types of jurisdictional, discovery and evidentiary issues, which are reflected in more than a hundred reported decisions.  Prior to entering private practice, Kerry clerked for the Honorable James L. Dennis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Kerry attended Tulane Law School and LSU for undergraduate

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