HANCOCK COUNTY Republican Women's Club

Jenny Nicaud received her undergraduate degree from Tulane University and her Juris Doctorate from Tulane Law School where she served as Editor of the Dicta and received the Meritorious Service Award from the Student Bar Association. She is certified in mediation by Harvard Law School and the University of Mississippi. She is a member of the state and federal bar associations of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida as well the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Over the course of her career, she served as a staff attorney to U. S. District Judges Marcel Livaudais, Jr and Ivan L.R. Lemelle in the Eastern District of Louisiana and Chief Magistrate Judge John M. Roper, Sr. in the Southern District of Mississippi. Thereafter, she practiced with Balch and Bingham, Copeland, Cook, Taylor, and Bush and served as a Municipal Judge Pro Temp for the City of Pass Christian.

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She served as a past President of the Russell, Walker, Blass American Inn of Court, and on the Board of the American Inn of Court, nationally. She is currently the Chairperson of the Federal Rules and Procedure section of the national Litigation Board and a Board Member of the ADR Board of the National Federal Bar Association. She has served as the liaison for the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference. She is a frequent lecturer at various continuing legal education seminars.

She is a member of the Access to Justice and the Women in the Profession Committees of the Mississippi Bar Association and was formerly a member of the Moral Character and Fitness Board of the Mississippi Bar. She serves as an adjunct instructor of evidence and courtroom procedure for the Harrison County Law Enforcement Academy and as an appointed Commissioner of the Pass Christian Historic Preservation Commission. She actively serves on the boards of many legal organizations and civic charities including the Corporate Board of the Boy’s and Girl’s Club, the Walter Anderson Museum, the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, and the Pass Christian School Foundation Board.

Judge Nicaud is the current Chairperson of the Professionalism Committee of the Mississippi Bar Association and is an adjunct professor at the Mississippi College of Law. Judge Nicaud was elected to and served on the Board of the National Association of Workers Compensation Judiciary (NAWCJ). She currently serves on the conference and recruitment committees for the NAWCJ. She was selected as an Ambassador for the Alliance of Women in Workers’ Compensation and was appointed to the Board of Kid’s Chance of Mississippi.