New Orleans, LA – Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jay B. McCallum has been appointed
by his fellow Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court as the Court’s ex officio appointee to the
Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute, effective immediately.
Justice McCallum earned his bachelor’s degree from Northeast Louisiana University in 1982 and
his juris doctor degree from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 1985. He
worked in the general practice of law at the offices of Rabun and McCallum in Union Parish. Prior
to serving as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992-2002, Justice
McCallum worked as an Assistant District Attorney. He served as a Third Judicial District Court
judge from 2002-2018. He was elected without opposition to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal
in 2018 and served until his election to the Louisiana Supreme Court for District 4 in 2020. Justice
McCallum is married to Deanna Dunham McCallum, Esq.; they are the parents of 2 children, and
they have 2 grandchildren.
The Louisiana State Law Institute was formed under its present name in 1938. That same year
the Legislature chartered, created, and organized it as “an official, advisory law revision
commission, law reform agency and legal research agency of the State of Louisiana”. The purpose
of the Institute is to promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of
Louisiana and its better adaptation to present social need, to secure the better administration of
justice, and to carry on scholarly legal research and scientific legal work.