Hon. S. Maurice Hicks
United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana
Following unanimous confirmation by the Senate, Judge Maury Hicks was sworn in as a United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport in June, 2003. He became Chief Judge in November, 2017. In 2019, he was elected as the Fifth Circuit’s District Judge representative to the Judicial Conference of the United States, the national policy-making body of the federal judiciary.
Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Hicks spent 26 years litigating in Louisiana state and federal courts. He was the founding member of Hicks, Hubley & Marcotte in Shreveport. From 1993 - 2017, Judge Hicks rose through the ranks of the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions, beginning as an assistant examiner for Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure, then moving to drafting the Federal Jurisdiction &Procedure (FJ&P) component of the bar exam, and later serving as Director of Testing, Director of Accommodations and Chair of the Committee. He is a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute and its Civil Law and Procedure Committee and organized the North Louisiana Chapter Federal Bar Association in Shreveport. Judge Hicks is a Past President of the District Judges Association of the Fifth Circuit and served as a member of the Judicial Council of the Fifth Circuit, the Financial Disclosure Committee and the Budget Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He lectures frequently on Professionalism, Evidence and Expert Witness issues at various seminars for the Louisiana State Bar Association, Louisiana State University and Loyola Law School CLE programs and various local bar associations. In conjunction with the Open World Program of the Library of Congress, Judge Hicks has hosted international judicial delegations from Russia, Siberia, Tartarstan, Ukraine, Turkey and Armenia. For the past 16 years, he has taught in the Frost School of Business MBA program at Centenary College of Louisiana. He is a Charter member of and currently a Judge Master member of the Harry V. Booth - Judge Henry A. Politz Chapter of the American Inns of Court.
