Hon. Barry W. Ashe, U.S. District Judge, USDC-EDLA

Judge Barry W. Ashe was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on August 30, 2018. He received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Tulane University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa and was recipient of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for distinction in political science. Before law school, Judge Ashe served as a surface warfare-qualified line officer in the United States Navy, in stints as acting executive officer, engineering officer, and deck officer of a minesweeper. Thereafter, he graduated magna cum laude from the Tulane University Law School, where he was selected to the Order of the Coif and served as Senior Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review. After law school, Judge Ashe served as law clerk to the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judge Ashe then joined the law firm of Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC, where his practice focused on appellate, products liability, class action/complex, and commercial litigation. He remained with Stone Pigman for 33 years before his appointment to the federal bench.

Judge Ashe is a member of the Federal Bar Association, previously serving on its national board of directors and as president of the New Orleans chapter (2010-11). He received the chapter’s John R. “Jack” Martzell Professionalism Award in 2015. Judge Ashe is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, and serves on the Tulane Law Review board of advisory editors.

Hon. Eva J. Dossier, U.S. Magistrate Judge, USDC-EDLA

Eva J. Dossier is a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.  Judge Dossier earned a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Tulane University, where she received a full academic scholarship and graduated cum laude with academic honors. She then graduated Order of the Coif from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she also received a full academic scholarship as a John W. Wade Scholar.  She was editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review and received the Vanderbilt Pro Bono Service Award, as well as Vanderbilt Scholastic Excellence Awards in Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Torts, and Wills and Trusts. After law school, Judge Dossier clerked for the Honorable James B. Loken, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and then the Honorable Lance M. Africk, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. 

While in private practice, Judge Dossier was a partner of the law firm of Stanley, Reuter, Thornton & Alford, LLC, focusing on litigation in Louisiana’s state and federal courts.  Part of her practice involved the representation of lawyers and law firms in ethics and professional responsibility matters. Judge Dossier is an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School, where she teaches an upper-level experiential course on written discovery and has provided trial advocacy instruction, and she is a frequent speaker on issues relating to ethics and professional responsibility. She served on the Lawyer Disciplinary Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 2017 to 2023.

Judge Dossier is a member of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, which recognized her with the Jack Martzell Professionalism Award in 2021.  Ms. Dossier is also Vice President of the New Orleans Bar Association.