The Hon. Carl J. Barbier, a 1966 graduate of Southeastern, will be honored at the Alumni Association’s annual awards evening Friday, Oct. 7, during Homecoming Week as the Southeastern Louisiana University 2022 Alumnus of the Year.
A judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, Barbier was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Barbier is a past president of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, now the Louisiana Association for Justice; past president of the New Orleans Bar Association, and past president of the Thomas More Loyola Inn of Court. He has served on the board of the Federal Bar Association.
As a federal judge, Barbier has handled a number of large, complex cases, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation that involved tens of thousands of cases arising from the largest oil spill in the history of the United States.
